Originally Posted by
MikeHatter732
They removed the ability to have reduced time on type with good checking history etc etc (i.e >2000 total, 700 on type)
It's now either 1000/1500 hours depending on your entry method. When people are averaging ~30 stick a month (and they are still hiring FO's, albeit ones straight from Uni
), it takes a while to get the time on type!
No ifs, no buts.
MikeHatter I’m still struggling to see how the Command requirements were increased. Previously the min requirements was 3000hours total and 1500hours on company aircraft. This was the normal intended requirements. There was a provision at the discretion of the CP to reduce those minimums to 700 and 2000 based on previous experience but this was not intended to be the normal requirements. It was at the discretion of the company. However a trend was starting to form where flight crew seemed to forget about the actual requirements and only focused on the reduced hours which wasn’t its intent. So the Command policy was adjust to firm minimums. These minimums are actually less than the previous minimums and as low as 700 hours on company aircraft and 12 months with the company for previous multi crew experience.
For Direct Entry FO it’s 1000 hours and 18 months with the company and Cadets its 1500 hrs and 24 months. All of these are far less that the previous requirements of 1500 hours on company aircraft and 3000 hours total time.