With all the traineeships, cadetships, MPL etc....my question is with the growing number of pilots entering high capacity RPT's with low hours how will these guys and gals get commands. I even read recently on one operators website that looking at 2 to 3 years before command. But I know some people with only 200 hours, how is this possible on co-pilot time. From quick estimate you're looking at 4 years and that is just to get to the 1500 total hour mark and not including 250 command?
Which leads to my next question, how would a co-pilot ever get that command. I assume the company would fork out 150 hours ICUS line training when upgrading to command????
And let's face it, the older captains that got in by direct entry will eventually retire leaving a majority of low command time pilots
