Originally Posted by
FougaMagister
What Studi and Lucifer seem to (conveniently?) forget is that the great majority of airline pilots have had to self-sponsor their flight training, go the modular way and work their way up in the industry.
With a proportion of ex-fighter jocks in the airlines, does anybody really believe that these make lesser airline pilots - just because they haven't been trained in a MPL environment from the outset?
The industry as a whole will be all the poorer if it comes to favour a single type of training background.
Rather than forgetting, I perhaps failed to emphasise the use of the MPL, if properly constructed, for the airline environment in turboprops as well as jets.
Military training is not particularly relevant in this respect, as there is no element of unsupervised hour building at all, however it is of note that some fighter pilots do have trouble in an airline environment, while others are of great additional value.
That is why I stressed the point of diversity of backgrounds, however for an ab initio, the intentions of the MPL are intended as an improvement on current training - this benefits everyone, including those who have to build up to the jet job through other backgrounds.