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Old 3rd Jun 2003, 07:04
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Wee Weasley Welshman
 
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Lets get a few things clear.

1) No British airline cares what Sim you did an MCC on. Its not logged anywhere, MCC certificates are often just run off a schools bubblejet printer, you could lie and they would never know or check. THEY DON'T CARE.

2) A lot of you are talking about a Jet Orientation Course being secretly what an MCC can be if you go on a big fancy Sim. Tosh. There is plenty in the MCC syllabus as it is. Its mostly about how to run a checklist and how to liase with another pilot. You could have the motion and visual switched Off for all that! MCC isn't a JOC course so stop pretending its a mini one.

3) If you wanted to prepare a bit for Sim assessments then here is the best way. Do a VERY cheap MCC - say £1,500. With the money saved over a big fancy one - I've seen £3,500 advertised but lets say you save a Grand - you wait until you've actually passed an interview and been offered a Sim assessment. You find out what its on - NOT hard - people often ask here "Does anyone know what the XYZ sim assessment profile is"? You then ring around and find just such a sim - maybe even the same one. For a Grand you should easily be able to afford a couple of hours on it. Why not combine your efforts and money with someone else also going for the same assessment? Great idea. A couple of hours practicing the actual rumoured profile used by the people you are trying to impress a week before you are trying to impress them. Thats a HECK of a lot better than doing an MCC on something vaguely similar 6 months ago.

4) I wouldn't train anywhere in Spain where the instructors and the students didn't all work in English. And it would have to be pretty good English. The course is hard enough without the slightest language barrier.

5) The MCC is a load of old Tosh anyway dreamt up by a committee in answer to a question nobody asked. And the airlines were supposed to pay for it after they hired you.

6) Bah, humbug.

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