Quality is NOT in ab-initio programs. When you find pilots arriving for training expecting to be spoon fed, who have been flying jets previously not being able to compute a descent profile without VNAV, not being able to do basic mental maths and unable to relate that Attitude + Power = Performance nor understand some fundamental theory then it is obvious the ab-initio training is seriously failing the Cadets. It appears that these schools like most Airline Management believe that Automation and rigid SOP's are all that is required in a cockpit today.
