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Re pilot training dropout percentage.
Face it. Dropout % is almost exclusively dependent on selection process. With
perfect selection requirements one would have near zero drop outs. When I went through the NavCad program in the early 50s, one needed to pass a bunch of Navy exams, be physically adequate, and have 2 years college in any major. Admittedly the navy was hungry for pilots at that time, but I suspect the overall dropout % was about 10%. We didn't start out (after 6 months pre flight) in Piper Cubs. We started out in SNJ/T6s -- in which everybody carrier qualified. The advanced *trainer* was the F6 Hellcat -- the hottest thing the Navy had a few years earlier -- and in which the single engine students all carrier qualified. People really don't change, but selection and training procedures surely do -- as they should. Technology is dandy: selection and training are what counts. Quent |
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