Re: MFTS - Another "success" story?
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:32 pm
I have lived through two major aviation hiring direction changes, one with the RAF and the other with a civilian airline. They both had difficulties for the same reason.
The military event was the transition from the cadet system to the graduate system at Cranwell (about 1976 ?). I instructed a student of 101 cadet entry which I believe was the final cadet course. I also instructed students on the early graduate entry courses.
The civilian event was the virtually judicially ordained hiring of large numbers of various minorities into US airlines.
The pattern between the two groups was surprisingly similar. The first new hires under the new systems were surprisingly good material but as soon as the good material had been exhausted it was found that it was impossible to maintain the required hiring rate without standards being rapidly lowered to maintain the required number of new-hires.
Many excellent pilots were taken on during these transition periods but also a lot of dross.
The military event was the transition from the cadet system to the graduate system at Cranwell (about 1976 ?). I instructed a student of 101 cadet entry which I believe was the final cadet course. I also instructed students on the early graduate entry courses.
The civilian event was the virtually judicially ordained hiring of large numbers of various minorities into US airlines.
The pattern between the two groups was surprisingly similar. The first new hires under the new systems were surprisingly good material but as soon as the good material had been exhausted it was found that it was impossible to maintain the required hiring rate without standards being rapidly lowered to maintain the required number of new-hires.
Many excellent pilots were taken on during these transition periods but also a lot of dross.