Originally Posted by
TheBills
He is talking about military training vs. 300 hour airline pilot training programs, which train you like the airline would, like Mesa Pilot Development does. I will say this too, Of the people that graduated MAPD and went to ground school at Mesa, more people failed out of the sim and ground school that were flight instructors than MAPD grads (300 hour wonders), that is fact.
That would be expected, since the MAPD grads had been studying the airplane systems for two years and had significant sim time. That is not the best measure of pilot quality.
Mesa only cared about getting folks through training...meat-in-the-seat. Whether they had any experience, judgement, or command ability once they got on line was not really a concern.
Some MAPD grads had ZERO logged time in actual IMC when they started flying the line. The only Wx down in FMN was CB's...