Originally Posted by
Nightstop
Err, no. This person will fail at the Type Rating course, if they get that far. The intensity of the the Type rating course and associated simulator sessions will be too much. Money won’t buy a job in this industry, if you don’t have the ability.
The current state of ATPL exams has got nothing to do with the content of a type rating and day to day operations on the line. Preparing for the actual ATPL exams was the most miserable and useless bit of my flight training path, and after five years on the line on two different CS-25 aircraft types, I reaffirm what I have just stated.
Never have I failed a check.