Originally Posted by
lucille
Impressive, was it single pilot? Plus had to be IFR if it was in the UK. I didn’t know it was possible get a CPL and IR with only 160 hours.
According to
UK Regs a CPL + IR is a total of 180hrs of which 40 can be on the ground so 140hrs TT in the air. Or an MPL which can be even less time in the air. There’s a big world outside of Australia.
In Oz, you’d consider yourself very, very lucky to be doing the same VFR in a C206 in the bush.
In a lot of Oz no, the majority of airlines in Australia have put plenty of CPL and IR grads into the right hand seat of aircraft ranging from 320s to Q400s to Metros and everything in-between with about 200hrs TT. This has been going on for decades.