I've said it before and I'll say it yet one more time. More than 50% of the pilots I see in the course of my job cannot be described as competent. Maybe they have the potential to be competent but they would need a lot more 'input' to realise it. When will we wake up and understand that 'attending' a course is not the same as 'passing' a course. We are not served well by the way we are doing things in the world of licensing pilots.
It's not just me, the Ryanair HoT said at a recent conference that 50% of those applicants for flight deck jobs FAILED their selection process.
Come on guys - we can do better than this.
G.