Originally Posted by
Gnadenburg
Twenty years ago at KA, pilots were upgrading between 10 months and 18 months and ageism didn't factor. Failure rates could be anywhere between 50% to 100% in certain periods. KA has a higher number of sectors than CX ( which helps ) and for all its operational peculiarities, KA was a little more practical ( having briefly had both CX SOPs and a loaned CX chief pilot as reference )
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Yet so many of those who left received instant commands elsewhere. No hull loses.
KA and CX have lost hundreds of thousands in wasted training due entirely poor ‘checking’.