Originally Posted by
kintyred
"If you're not chopping a percentage you're not maintaining standards"
To be honest Tourist, I don't think you were really cut out to be an instructor!
No argument there......
Seriously though, if you are never chopping, you are saying that everybody who gets through the interview is suitable.
That's simply never going to be the case.
Judging how good a pilot is going to be by their learning curve/rate is cr@p, but it is better than any other metric that has been found.
Getting somebody through by awesome/extra instruction rather than student capability just leads to downstream problems either on OCUs or frontline.
We have all seen the results and long term fallout of the various times that recruitment numbers have been tight and standards have relaxed a bit.