Allow me to offer my dime on the failure rate for this year. Untill end of June things were running very smooth.only 5-6 failures out of 60 ppl. At that time an expat skip made a crucial mistake in his GACA oral. He had a confrontation with his examiner. The examiner failed him ASAP as well as the next 2 expat skippers (collateral losses
).the guy in question ,left the company without notice,he didn't even pay the extras on the hotel.since then things got a very sloppy road.7 out of 8 expats from the next group had difficulties and i dont know about their status right now.Training in SV has one key word ATTITUDE.The right one gives a fair chance to complete your training . The wrong one,on the other hand gives an one way ticket back to your country .All in all failure rate this year is not by any means close to 50% .(approximately 120 expats had joined SV until late June) People in the training are very helpful and willing to assist all the expats with their tasks as long as their culture and their way of thinking are totally understood.People with high ego and high temp forced to quit.people with a lower self esteem and better acting capabilities had no problem at all .its a long process mostly due to lack of IPs in the line training .6-7 months is an average time until the end of training,with huge gaps aftre the rating and the SO or the RH seat flights.