Originally Posted by
rickair7777
My understanding is that they have challenges recruiting officers, so opportunities should be more available.
Don't know about technical degrees, but I'm sure they require a specific GPA while on scholarship.
UPT wash rates are significantly lower, due to both need to be more efficient and also fear of offending anyone. If you wash someone out, you had darn well better have given them every chance they had coming, and annotated all of the i's and t's.
I was just reading that graduation rates from UPT are far higher than they used to be. Don't know that I buy the "fear of offending anyone" reason, but if they're having problems retaining pilots, I can understand why they would be willing to give people additional training if needed, instead of washing them out after having a bad day or two, which always seemed like a waste to me. But graduation rates in the mid nineties percentile seem awfully high, unless they are massively screening people out ahead of time. Seems like if they were letting just anyone make it through, skilled or not, there would be a much larger number of military airplanes crashing.