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Originally Posted by JaceTheAce NO. As long as you have your degree, you're fine. If you have a 4.0 GPA and want to brag that you had no social college life, then it could help.  |
I disagree. Any airline that asks to see your transcripts is going to be impressed if you had good grades or they are going to have additional questions if you had mediocre grades or lower. If I was hiring someone that would be going through an intense training environment I would want to make sure they are good at studying, which is what good grades show.
Airline training doesn't give you the luxury of cramming for an exam. You must learn the systems and procedues in a short two week ground school. If you can't handle that they you don't pass. The only way an interviewer is going to find out if you study well is if you had good grades in school.
Your success as an ailrine pilot then hinges on your ability to absorb a lot of information, sometimes very quickly. At the airline I work for, a pilot is required to know information from 8 different books. It's a bit over the top, but those who can't do it don't upgrade ( Period ). Those who try to do it without the required work will fail somewhere in the training process. We don't coddle pilots like they do at U.S. majors. You either do the work or you fail.
If you can't be bothered to study hard you won't succeed, either as a pilot or in life.
Typhoonpilot