(a) An applicant for an ATPL(A) shall have completed as a pilot of aeroplanes at least 1500 hours of flight time
I suspect that may put a bit of a damper on the plans of most fATPL holders who were planning on applying for a job that requires an ATPL.
I'm not a big fan of the use of the "frozen ATPL" terminology. I think it's much less confusing to call it a CPL/IR (which is exactly what it is, really) as just about every other country does, to avoid any possible confusion with the full ATPL. But I guess there's no way of changing that, so we'll just have to live with the possible confusion.
FFF
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