My class a few years ago had the same. We started with six, lost one in groundschool, and then three of the five failed the first ride. They were all retrained and flew the line. PSA is very intense on the training, more so than any place I have seen, however, this is not really a good thing. They made us memorise "centiscopes" of fuel, strange off the wall things. Some of it was good, alot wasn't. I think they have something like 26 memory items or something like that now. The CRJ had 25, the DC8 had 15. The plane I'm flying now has 11. I'm looking fowards to the day when I don't have any. I remember that PSA also did circling approaches in the simulator, and we weren't approved for circling approaches in the op specs. They told us that this was for the type rating, which none of us were getting, but when I was at other airlines, no circling approaches were required for the type ratings. The old POI at PSA, Man..., something, was somewhat of a picky guy. He wanted a "perfect" checkride for those guys getting types. Good news is once you are on line, the recurrent stuff is easy, the flying is great, not a bad regional airline if you can handle the low pay. The plane is wonderful. Upgrade...keep your fingers crossed and hit the books. Don't forget all the centiscopes.
