Re: Cheapest MCC in Europe
I did the BCFT MCC. Not so sure about now, but when we did it the sim had a fair amount of technical issues that delayed the course significantly. As a means of rectifying this somewhat, the guys at European gave us a couple of hours in the 747 sim which was awesome. This took the form of hand flown circuits at Gatwick, so really it was an extra couple of hours jet orientation. This was on top of the standard 20 hours MCC. Then they offered us some free time to be used in the future in the 727 sim to help make up for the delays. This was unfortunately useless to me being based in Northern Scotland, but the other guys from down south were keen to use this offer for sim ride prep. BCFT offered me a refund of around £200 so in effect I had a full MCC and mini jet handling course on heavy jets for £2200, fantastic deal if ever there was one. Although the 747 sounds very appealing, I believe the Tristar was the superior platform for the course, due to the huge cockpit and well layed out panel and switches. It really is amazing just how cramped the 747-200 sim cockpit is. There were also 2 other providers of the MCC module when I was there both using the Tristar ; Multi Crew Training Ltd and EPTA.