Disinterested Third Party
I haven't exaggerated at all. Four red airplanes...red for the solo airplanes...because students do minimal soloing, and the rest is supervised solo...ever wondered why that is?
How does this have a bearing on a job opening for new instructors, or the announcement thereof? You really don't understand?
The students have their own web sites, every test is listed, every question, every answer. Among the students, cheating is encouraged, and yes, it's cultural. The school doesn't tolerate it, and officially the chinese authority doesn't either, but it's absolutely a fact of life, and 80% pass within the company 141 structure is irrelevant.
Instructors show up there to build time and that's what they do. Students have an appalling failure rate on checkrides for their commercial, instrument, and multi. The FAA understands that these students aren't returning to the US to fly; these certificates (and it is a certificate mill) are generated for the express purpose of being a springboard for a Chinese license at home (and other countries of origin, China being the primary country represented at Transpac).
The student private websites include complete dossiers on each instructor, detailing exactly what the instructor likes, doesn't like, does or doesn't do, etc. Students are trained for a checkride, period. Not to be pilots, not to be aviators, but to pass a specific checkride. A broad understanding of procedures isn't part of the training schedule; press them to the checkride, then when they fail, press them through again and again until they pass.
I can tell you that from the perspective of an instructor, I'd have some very serious ethical issues performing those duties and signing off a student, knowing what the student didn't get and didn't know, at the conclusion of training.
There are some dedicated students there, fulfilling a lifelong dream, and willing to sign the 99 year commitment that they do, to get it. There are a lot of others marking time, gliding through the program because they had connections in their home country of origin, enough to get them into the program with the host airline, and who couldn't care less about learning. A lot of such students. As you were astute enough to point out, however, a great deal of the high failure rate of the students can be blamed on the instructors along with the students, and in the larger picture, on the corporate culture that permits it.
What goes on there really ought to be criminal. If those were US-bound students, the FAA would have taken a very different view a long time ago. For now it's revenue from foreign airlines for students who will never rent or return, going back to serve out their 99 years, never to be seen again. Nobody cares, so long as the money comes in and the students keep testing until they pass.
I've never seen another school or facility or program with so many failures in the logbooks, so many re-tests for any given student. It's shocking. There is absolutely no way I'd ever put myself in the position of signing off such a student, or even taking the remote gamble that the student might be prepared to take the checkride. Never. Does that have a direct implication to a discussion of employment for potential applicants for the job? It surely should. Is it relevant. It absolutely is. It's also something that the applicants should know long before they apply. Otherwise, why bother looking to a site such as this for information? Don't whitewash it. There's nothing professional or ethical about burying your head in the sand; the wages are poor, there's a lot of flying, and the students fail in droves, and have for a long time now. They eventually pass and go home...don't try to pretend otherwise. That students pass internal quizzes and exams after they've had access to photocopies of the tests before the class ever began (and they do--are you not aware??) is no demonstration of success. Call the spade a spade, for that's exactly what it is.