Hm.. Who cares.

Good luck and don't suck.

Since the majority of posters only have experience with one training department, they cannot make an educated comparison.

As others have said, ask about failure rates.

Some other questions I would suggest:
Is training in house or farmed out?
Do you feel check airmen are generally equally hard/easy?
During initial or transition, will the company give extra sim time to a "good" applicant that is having an issue or two?
Are the check airmen generally nice/helpful/angry/hostile?
Do you feel the training evolutions are well organized?

You did good because that's why I am leaving PDT while my record is still clean.

Anyone thoughts about TSA?

I've only been through one 121 training, but I have a lot of good things to say about SKW's training department and their people.

ok great thanks for the feedback everyone. If anyone can tel me more about TSA (cause that's the only interview I will have next month so far) that
will be highly appreciated.

By far the best?

Comair. Period.


ACA: Was bad. Got better after needed changes made.


RAH: so so. Seen better. Seen worse.


Now what was the point of this thread?

I think he's trying to mitigate any potential chance for failure. There are clearly issues with some training departments (EGL, and PDT are two I can think of) and you would do well to steer clear of the known problem children, but really OP -- if you want to do well in your training, apply yourself. Study hard, and I doubt you'll fail unless you can't fly or memorize profiles or multi-task or you tend to choke on oral or sim evals.

Almost every training department has their "special" person who likes to make it hard on newhires -- that's just the way it is and you had better be prepared if you get that person. Also, no one's immune to having a bad day. You just prepare the best you know how and get on with it.

I already flew for 6 years for an airline and hold 2 type ratings from which one of them was the Dash 8. So I agree with most of what you
wrote. But what I've seen at PDT I haven't seen before. And it's not only for what I have seen for myself, but also what happened to other classmates.

Anyway if anyone can pm me about TSA that will appreciated.

Yeah PDT is the one that I consistently hear bad things about so like everyone else, I encourage people to make another choice for an airline.