My opinion on the MPL program
1. From my limited knowledge of the MPL program it contains more simulator hours on a full flight simulator ( take the A320 for eg ) before the candidates are sent for line training on the actual aircraft . I believe this is in excess of 100 hours on an FFS
Am I right ?
2. Compare that to a regular low hour CPL holder who receives on average 34-50 hours on average on the Full Flight Simulator before being released to the actual aircraft for flying duties . These hours are the bare minimum required to be qualified on the said aircraft type .
Comparing the above two an MPL holder will naturally perform better in flying a multi crew aircraft due to the higher number of hours in the full motion sim than your average low hour CPL holder
How many agree with me in the above said point ?
An MPL holder will have more time to fiddle around in the sim , make mistakes , learn from them....... than a bare CPL holder who has to use the limited amount of SIM time to learn as much as they can learn .
Why the limited amount of SIM time for a bare CPL holder ?
Money ofcourse .
It costs a lot money to train someone in excess of 100 hours on a Full Flight Sim . Something the airlines have been avoiding all this while even though they knew from before that it takes a lot more than the bare minimum to teach someone to properly fly a Multi Crew Jet Engined Aircraft .
Now that the MPL program has come up airlines can easily pass this cost on to the candidate .
I believe that for the MPL program to survive airlines in the future will have to bear the cost or a part of the cost of training as there are only a hand full of people who will be able to pay the cost of an MPL program . If they dont pay for it , it will lead to a pilot shortage .
Cyril Roy
Last edited by cyrilroy21; 1st August 2012 at 21:08.