Steel Horse said:
Anyway I will leave it at that as someone with a lot of experience has made the choice to keep him.
Not that you have any say in the matter, but...
This is precisely the function of the OTU staff - CO, Standards Guys, Instructors, Course Director, Flight Surgeon, etcetera.
You could see how long it took to reach the decision, and how much they wrestled with it.
Occasionally, some intelligent discretion has to be applied rather than straight cut-and-dried performance criteria.
Is it really a good idea to cut somebody with experience and a lot of potential when reasonable corrective measures can be applied at a fraction of the cost invested to date? Can we afford to do that when we are extremely short of pilots?
I have been on both sides of this situation, both as a student with some difficulties (and, yes, there were a couple of times during training when I "could have" killed somebody, depending upon one's definition of "could have" and how much one wanted to hype it up for a television programme) and as a senior instructor agonizing, with other instructors and DCO/CI, whether or not a particular borderline student should pass or fail.
The blunt responses that you received were due to the way you worded your posts, including the one from which I quoted . A reasonable question would have received a reasonable answer, but stating what should have been done in front of several of us who have direct experience with this proven system tends to cause the type of reaction that you got. From what I have seen, the fighter pilot training system is doing what it is supposed to do - developing effective fighter pilots for the CF.
Now, having defended something fighter-related again, I once more feel in need of a shower.