Originally Posted by
junior.VH-LFA
I don't know where 200 hours has been plucked from. That isn't remotely close to accurate.
The ADF BFTS course was 60 hours - it isn't even close to a CPL standard. It's not ab-initio but they're definitely not winged qualified pilots. When it comes to things live navigation a PPL standard was substantially higher than what students had leaving BFTS. For this reason compleition of BFTS but not 2FTS did not entitle students to a PPL, let alone a CPL.
The ADF BFTS course was
eventually 60 hours, but only in its latter years of existence.
My ADF BFTS course was significantly fatter - I have 137 hours on the CT4 - that would include about 20 hours of Flight Screening and about 3 hours of remedial training - so it was definitely over 100 hours for ADF1/2/3/4 or so...
I already had a CPL - I certainly believe ADF BFTS was CPL level when I did it.