Career as a pilot starting with 1 hour at 43 years old?

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I am with boeing dreamer on that one.

Vocabulary has its importance.
And there is only 2 licence, the CPL, and the ATPL one. In a flight school you only pass the CPL one. The ATPL one can only be done after years of actual experience with a CPL. "fATPL", that's flight school vocabulary (that we all use nowadays, including chief pilots) to keep the wannabe confused and make him dream.
The civil authority allow you to pass the ATPL theory instead of the CPL IR (in order to get your CPL licence) for different reason, on being that both theory are almost EXACTLY the same.
Thing is this is completely useless, they should get rid of the CPL IR theory. Or they shouldn't allow wannabe to pass the ATPL theory whith 50 hours total time (a PPL) when they will not understand anything they will memorise, it would be smarter (from the authority/safety point of view) to make the pilot pass the ATPL theory at 1500 hours and not before. When you reach 1500 hours you don't remember what you memorised without any practical application years before.

To have the right to fly an airliner as a F/O (anyway you cannot pretend a captain position after flight school), you need a MCC and type rating. No ATPL needed AT ALL, no theory, no licence, and the ATPL theory gives you NO MORE RIGHTs THAN THE CPLIR THEORY simply because it's exactly the same for a CPL holder.
Truth is the ATPL and CPLIR theory being almost the same, it would be stupid (from the pilot point of view) not getting the ATPL theory immediately (that you will need in your career when you will be ready to pass the ATPL licence.
This system doesn't make any sense. Anyway you can pass any theory or Phd you want, even the theory to be an astronaute, it is still a CPL licence you will get in your flight school.