From the
current version of the retained EU legislation:
Applicants for the issue of the first type rating for a multi-pilot aeroplane shall be student pilots currently undergoing training on an MPL training course or shall, before starting the type rating training course, comply with the following requirements:
(1) have at least 70 hours of flight experience as PIC in aeroplanes;
(2) hold or have held a multi-engine IR(A);
(3) .....
Once again, information on the CAA website is found to be incorrect whilst the actual legislation remains difficult to find and almost impossible to navigate. Dysfunctional is hardly an adequate description of this bunch of numpties.