Never had an easy command course...but must have done enough in the end surviving star chamber and managment check etc...many compatriots who I hold in very high regard didnt have their luck go their way on the day and had success at a later date....
With reflection there should be a failure rate....the 100% move right to left is bad. Since most will do the hard work but over the years you will slowly grow a pool of poor qualified captains who never did the work.
I agree though with Shep, the current system in cathay is just a poor reflection of cost cutting and some other issues but if you look at the majority of the failure rate of cathay command course, it isnt about skill or professionalism......its about the actual lack of cathay preparing its F/o for what the company expects from its future captains.
Some examples of guys failing are pretty easy to see coming. Example: expect to be "trained to be a captain"... Nope its a checking course your already meant to be the captain or trying as hard as you can be, even if it may bring you into confrontation with your Check Captain on a hard day. The stress nut who has worked himself up into a frenzy raging over every check hoop he is jumping thru...every negative comment will induce another foam mouth explosion(internally or externally) and followed by a poorer preformance under the course. Or the vol8 super keen hard working who is trying to have everything down rote, you just cant cover everything that happens and when C/t see this they start throwing you curve balls thick and fast.
And later your all in the bar bemoaning the failure rate when you ACTUALLY werent there to see THE WHY your mate failed I would reserve judgment upon CX training Dept. And no I am not in CX Training
