Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I agree MAPD was technically sound at one point. Some mature adults could take that training and combine it with their judgement and experience from their previous life and do OK.
But as time passed and mesa right seats got harder to fill, the standards plummeted like everything else over there.
You can't take the average kid and put him in that position and expect everything to work out great. Those kind of programs require above-average raw-material...and I'm not referring to daddy's credit rating.
I completely agree. There was a time when the program was ran like the military (almost). You had to dress, act, look a certain way. The chief pilot at that school didn't take any ****. Of course then he left and it went down hill from there.