Originally Posted by
ScrumpyJ
Does anyone know what sort of drop-out rate the cadets on IOT have at all? And the failure rate of Pilots during specialist training too?
Scrumpy, by drop out do you mean 'voluntarily withdrawn from training'? This is analogous to a university drop-out. If you are wondering if you will be a drop-out then perhaps better not to start.
If, OTOH, you mean 'chop rate' then that is for us to worry about not for you. Your job is to do the best you can and to pass the courses. Our job is to equip you as best we can to do just that.
In IOT there is no planned chop-rate. May be one or two will VWFT; may be one or two will suffer medical failures - simply just not fit enough. May be one or two might have slipped through the AFOC/OASC filters but overall the aim is to pass all entrants out; may be not first time but ultimately.
In pilot training it is entirely up to you. You may prove to have insufficient aptitude but more likely a lack of capacity. I hesitate to put a number to this as my own direct knowledge is well out of date. Statisically it may well be valid but for any one course you cannot predict with any certainty the actual rates.
You do YOUR best and your instructors will do THEIR best.