type ratings too expensive?
Hi,
Was looking at the costs of type ratings and couldn´t really figure out why they were so expensive here in europe. Most of the training is done in the simulators and classrooms, much similar to MCC, except for the heavier theory and extra hours in the sim. But is this difference really so great, that the ratings become so expensive?
The MCC is around 6000euro´s for 30 hours in the Airbus 320 in Spain. Yet the type rating is more than 20.000Euro´s at the same school(without the 1 hr in the real thing).
I think this is pretty much the same picture in the rest of Europe.
So why such a huge difference in price?
jules