Originally Posted by Quincy M.E.
As a, soon to be, TATC all this talk of falling validation rates is rather depressing. Do they give you another chance?
As well as being unfair on the units it also sounds a bit unfair on the trainees if the training is not comprehensive enough to give the best chance of passing; especially given the sacrifices some of us have to make to join.
Quincy
You have a perfectly good chance of passing but a polite description of the current system is that you will need to "hit the ground running". If you have little or no previous aviation experience, you will have a lot of learning to do, remembering that it is all pertinent, not just theory learning for its own sake. The criticism from college instructors and the unit OJTIs is that trainees now have the bare minimum training whereas they used to have wider experience before going to their first unit. This gave the benefit of broader appreciation and confidence; however, these latter attributes apparently do not appear in the beancounters' tickboxes.
Good luck.
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