Originally Posted by
Royaldane
"Two busts (at any level) is going to delay your career progression. But it's not a show stopper."
Rickair7777 check ride failures especially at the primary level aren't deal breakers to legacy carriers. I know of multiple pilots from regional carriers who have 4+ check ride failures who were hired at legacy carriers. And I'm talking 10+.
Its absolutely about how you own it and less so about being that perfect pilot IMHO
That is counter to what I have observed on the ground, and what my buddies with insight into legacy hiring are telling me.
Multiple failures will DEFINITELY get your app filtered out by the computer, so you have no opportunity to own it.
Someone with anything even remotely like 10 busts will never get an interview call from "the herd"... only way that would happen is with some serious inside pull, or maybe affirmative action tickets.
I agree that if you somehow actually GET an interview call, your odds of explaining GA busts in the past are pretty good... these days if they rant you an interview they basically intend to hire you unless you blow it somehow. But the trick today is getting the call. 20+ years ago they would often interview 20 and hire 2-3, so back then the trick was actually passing the interview (getting the call often happened when you had 1,000 hours TPIC). They would also run of class of 13 to get 10 on line, so training was merciless... not much spoon feeding.