Originally Posted by
HazyIPA
It is glaringly obvious to anyone following the industry and the current hiring environment this is a calculated game plan to wash out as many prior military pilots as possible since so many did a hit-and-run with regionals (using them for an ATP and then bouncing to a major as soon as they hit 1,500TT) during the mad-house hiring environment of 2021-2022. Or at the very least, force these pilots to reapply and get them to sign the training contract.
It's a bizarre tangent for sure, perhaps based on regulatory hair-splitting as James mentioned. Might even be a rogue APD with a personal axe to grind.
But OO isn't hiring and training mil pilots, only to intentionally wash them out on checkride day on a grey area technicality, that's just plain dumb. If they didn't want mil people they simply wouldn't hire them.