This thread has now degenerated!
Scroggs,
Ask yourself one question. If you were employing two pilots equal on all fronts but one pilot had 80% AVG with a few resits and a few partials and another pilot had 90% pass rate and no resits. Who would you pick. Would you pick the second one? If you would, why wouldnt you take the first and better of the two? This is basically what you are saying companies do.
Remember? Passes at ATPL ground exams, and who gives a flying !!!! about how many failures you have?
The point is, you are wrong (or nieve) when you say companies wont take pass rates into consideration or to use your terms wont 'give a flying !!!! about pass rates' . If they didnt then they wouldnt be making a full assessment of a persons abilities as both an academic and a pilot (beyond what they are as a person which goes without saying). Having said that it would be equally as bad if companies used pass rates as the sole basis that they chose pilots on as flystudent has suggested and for which you so delicately put him right.
Really, flystudent? We 'know' this do we? So you'll have no trouble telling us exactly which airlines apply these criteria to direct entry fATPL candidates, I take it? This is important information; please share it with us. By the way, which airline do you work for, and how many selection procedures have you run or even attended?
If you are so well qualified, Can you say with certainty that every single company in the uk DOESNT use pass rates as an initial tool to weed out pilots? Or as a tool to determine the better of two equally capable candidates.
Before you ask, im an fatpl, no airline experience and I do not work in recruiting and yes, these are my personal opinions.
Shoot me down for having them if you wish and deny others the freedom to decide if they have merit. Or, give your side to the story, give constructive criticism and equally let us decide if your argument has merits.
One last thing, Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Coming from a moderator is even lower. If a forum cant be used to express opinions and ideas (or rumours as the name PPRUNE includes) then what can it be used for. Your last few posts have been an insult to both my intelligence and the other readers that were trying to get something out of this thread.
Help if you want to help. Sarcasm doesnt help.
If you dont want to help those of us that are striving to succeed in the tough world of aviation then stick to kicking people out that use swear words. You will probably take this as an insult but it is actually constructive criticism. There is a difference.
Chris.
P.S. Who moderates the moderators?