Believe it or not - I'm getting the feeling from this thread that the airline industry in a lot harder on it's hirees than the military has been on it's student pilots or newly winged aviators in the last few years. It is VERY hard to failed someone out of flight school now. The amount of money invested keeps rising and the numbers keep falling. Cost saving solutions meant to reduce the time and money it takes to train also means the past experience isn't there - in the way of total hours or discipline (think the elements of CRM).

I see this as being somewhat akin to the regionals lowering their minimum required and all the chatter here about very low time pilots being invited to training and then whether they are ready for that training or not before they start.

Of course some credit has to be given to an industry where the standardization is so high that there are many success stories of these same low times pilots completing training and moving on to the airlines and eventually becoming high time Captains. Kudos.

Someone else said that the most stable flying job you'll ever get is in the military. Strange thought - but from what I see on these threads that just might be the truth!

USMCFLYR