Originally Posted by
Hacker15e
That's a dude who needed to get over himself anyway.
Well, on the surface he had a very legitimate case: He had no checkride failures, solid academic scores as well as daily ride scores, and was well liked, where as the person who got the -17 assignment failed both the transition and navigation checkrides. Had it not been for those checkride failures, I doubt anyone would have noticed, but because of them the decision seemed very awkward.
There were rumors no one could confirm (most of which supported his position that he got screwed) of why things happened the way they did, but I'm not going to go into them here.