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Old 21st Jan 2022, 13:33
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FlightDetent

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Originally Posted by pineteam
We don’t have any MPL pilots in the company I work for but we do have a decent amount of cadets who joined straight from flight school onto the Airbus. And for my personal experience, Most of the time I enjoyed more flying with these guys
The flight hours to reach RHS A32x the fastest could be around 220 hrs for your cadets colleagues while MPLs get there with 140-ish as observed.

Different from the cadets, however, the MPL training is completely focused on that specific RHS job and type from very early on. Their IR / MEP is done on the type which will be awarded to obtain around 80 hours before touching its metal, under the sponsoring airline's SOP. Somewhat ironically they have more job-related experience than the cadets and should kick ass accordingly.

There will be weak points but those are broadly the same to anyone starting without previous commercial IFR experience.

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