In my first full year at SKW we hired well over 700 pilots and I'm pretty sure our failure rate was less that 1% (almost 30 in my new hire class and everyone passed). Seriously, SKW "trains to proficiency." What that means is that if you have the right attitude and you’re willing to work hard they will go the extra mile and give you the additional training to get you through. They hired you and they are committed to spending 10's of thousands of dollars on training you so they don't want you to fail.

Now upgrade is different, although it was easy, they are not as lenient. When you upgrade it’s serious, you are out there by yourself, in total control with some green FO’s all while representing the company and your code shares. You must perform.