I wasn't suggesting that the standard be lowered, just that if the course was properly designed and good candidates selected that there shouldn't be a high washout rate. If that's truly the case, I believe that is a failure on part of the USAF.
From reading a few other posts it seems that although FWQ required fewer flight hours, that it didn't really save much money. Not sure how that math works out, but I guess there's overhead and other costs involved with maintaining a FWQ course.
I joined the Army although I think life would be better in the circus...uh, I mean, USAF.