Originally Posted by busdriver12

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.