Originally Posted by
parkfell
The actual MPL product is specifically trained for the RHS and given 120 hours multi crew training prior to type rating, compared to the MCC course students are clearly better prepared. That is not to say that some very competent MCC/JOC/APS students also succeed without issues.
Sorry, but as someone who has to sit beside the product I have to say that is wrong in many ways. Whilst an MPL cadet may be a whiz at the iPad actually flying the aircraft is a challenge and too many are chopped for inability to land and the fleet sees a lot of heavy landings. Line Captains are unfairly burdened sitting beside many of these cadets who could do with their entire first year being solely with training Captains. The Airbus (aircraft) deprives a pilot of a certain amount of “feel”. An Airbus simulator further compounds this problem and this is where most of an MPL learns their “feel”. A solid bedrock of being able to actually fly first as a PPL with 100 hours P1 would enhance what actual ends up on the flight deck. Sadly, too many MPLs simply cannot land and on the line when you find your self in a dark stormy night in a
little
airfield as a Captain with an MPL you very quickly find yourself single pilot. The sooner this MPL is confined to history the better.