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Macjet
I know the head of training at WN. He's a great dude. Former Delta guy. Lots of cool stories. He'll be the first one to tell you that WN isn't getting the quality of candidate that they used to.
We have a lot of NetJets, Flex, Citation Shares, Options, and random 135 and 91 guys with us. None of that changes the fact that they have the highest failure rate. Period. The guys that do make it through training are generally solid guys. The best guys coming through class though are former regional guys. 91/91k/135 is just a different animal. Lots of cowboys with very, very few SOP's. That just the nature of the beast. It isn't impossible to go from 91/135 to a 121 but it certainly is harder.
To be fair, last time I talked to somebody in the know, NJA is facing the same training problems. It is why they brought back the sim eval for interviews. Hell, look at the failure rate of NJA pilots that transition to a newer fleet. Long time NJA pilots were failing out of the Phenom in droves 2-3 years ago, the Lat too...