Hello there and thanks for Your reply, I appreciate the information you are sharing!
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Regarding the type rating, would be helpful to know the airline. Can guarantee you won’t get sacked for saying ‘easyjet’ or ‘wizzair’, or at least what type of aircraft it will be, are we talking turboprops or jets?
A320 it is, and regarding the company I'll just say that it's a/the flag carrier of Austria...
I just don't want to post specific names here.
Since you’re talking about essentially becoming modular, you’ll need 200 hours of flying, and need to get a multi engine instrument rating. Then a JOC and MCC as well as UPRT. A CPL is pretty much worthless unless you want to tow banners, your plan (to presumably fly jets still) needs a frozen ATPL.
I am not really after flying big jets, I just want to earn money by flying. So I'd be more than happy to work in air ambulance, calibration services, corporate aviation...
The problem is that my future-employer (hopefully) is not even certain about whether
if they will pick up training again. And if they do, we already have been told that we are looking at waiting periods in the order of YEARS. My theoretical examination will expire in 2022, so I want to plan ahead and look into options of gaining a license myself, so that the past 2.5 years of training were not completely worthless. That's how I came across the idea of getting a CPL.
Regarding the MCC and UPRT, we have done about 4:00h UPRT in SEP aswell as 4:00h in FFS A320, maybe it can be credited?
I’m assuming you’ve spent six to eight months in a simulator as part of the MPL? You’re wasting all of that if you go this way and given MPLs cost about £100k, you’ll need to accept you’re writing off about half of that amount as having been wasted.
I won't post numbers, but our training bond is way below £100.000, in fact it might even get waived due to how our training contract is built...
Do I necessarily already have to be a MPL holder in order for my training hours to be credited?