Originally Posted by
Okihara
No doubt you're a good a pilot, no doubt you're probably right, and no doubt you're missing the point of this thread, namely: how do you land a FO job with 200 hours with a national airline?
You start off as a cadet pilot ( by whatever name) with the airline, I would have thought that was obvious.
Since the 1960's, with many/most European airlines and many other carriers, cadets in the RHS of an RPT aircraft with 250 hours has been the (starting) rule, rather than the exception.
The whole point of the MPL was to produce a 250 or so hour pilot much better prepared for said RHS --- now a well proven path.
Tootle pip!!
PS: Most airlines do not regard a couple of years of single pilot bush-bashing in FAR 23 aircraft as great preparation for an airline window seat --- and, indeed, where most of them come from, there is no such source of pilots, anyway.