Five Green
I agree that a year or two delay to command has a huge impact on career earnings.
Yes my maths are only an approximation. All I am doing is trying to see what is a 'back of the fag packet' number for the pass rate. I never see any number published by CX - all we ever get told about is the guys doing it on the freighter in 2-3 years.
Now a statistic I would like to see is the failure rate before and after Nick became DFO? Anecdotally it was very very low before I did my command, when the abacus was in charge. Obviously the zoologists' darwinian filtering techniques are more rigorous that what CX did for the previous 55 years. Of course it is possible that the previous GMA recruited badly in the mid-late 90s and that is why we have a high failure rate now - who was GMA back then??????