I have a question:
On what basis did CASA issue the MPL licenses to the China Eastern Cadets who carried out the course as a beta test?
Petteford told the inquiry that the MPL concept included only approx 70 hours in an aircraft and then was 100% level D sim. Assuming those are similar requirements to the CASA beta test how did they get around the requirement to have 240 hours of Aeronautical Experience prior to taking the flight test. Not total time, not sim time but Aeronautical Experience.
Aeronautical Experience is a CASA defined term and does not include sim time but only flight time and in that co-pilot time to be factored by a half.
Can someone explain this? Can CASA explain? Or is this just a big stuff up?
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