To those who think that anyone could be scrubbed from RAAF Pilot Course in Phase 5 or even on wings test nowadays, without having a track record of poor performance and failures up to that point, you are mistaken. Those days are long gone.
These candidates always have a history indicating they would have difficulty passing operational conversions, but may have other circumstances and personal issues that COs consider are related, and so COs sometimes keep them on course in their interests and the possibility that they may improve. In many cases they do, but some get to the final month of course where their problems in areas like as weak multi-tasking, prioritisation and problem solving get fleshed out. Candidate performance is very carefully monitored nowadays and they have every access to remedial training, counseling, and redress avenues. Sometimes the candidates see their final chop ride in simple terms, such as crap landings, but invariably there were a whole gamet of things consistent with previous performance, they were not aware of in flight, that they should have been managing. An unfortunate cliche, but it is like giving them a longer rope for which to hang themselves.