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What happens if the new FA that you are suppose to certify doesn't understand the difference between the Emergency Exit and the overhead Oxygen Masks? Is their IOE a one time deal that if they screw up they are washed out? Or are they given a second chance to improve?
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If they don't know the difference between the emergency exits and the oxygen masks, they never would have made it out of ground school. New-hires take many written & practical tests during ground school, and those must be completed successfully before they go on to do IOE. A student who fails a test in ground school does have a second chance to retake the test they failed, and they are given additional instruction in the subject matter that they need help with. If you don't pass a second time, you get more instruction, and then one last chance. If you don't pass after the third try, you're sent home. However that doesn't happen very often.
As for passing IOE, but the time a student gets to IOE, they know the job functions, it's just a matter of overcoming any 'stage fright' they may have, and putting all of what they've learned to work. In 3 years of doing IOE I only refused to sign off one person. He simply could not do the job. I was not yet a ground school instructor at the time, so I have no idea how he passed ground school. I had this particular guy with me for about 15 (flight) hours, and he came to me from another instructor who had him for about 10. I refused the sign off, and the training department elected to send him to yet another instructor. He did not ever pass IOE. But this was one person out of every student I ever had. (I can't remember how many IOEs I did over those 3 years, but it was a lot.)
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Thanks for the answer. My bad, I used that analogy of the O2 masks to the exits as a joke (of course I knew they wouldn't be let out of ground school if they didn't know that). I guess I should have put a
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Thats not bad only one person you weren't able to sign off in 3 years.