WWW - way off the plot on your first few comments, old chap.
For example, those airlines that sponsor cadets all insist that their MCC is done on a jet FNPTII - not a King Air.
Most of them are combining their MCC with a JOC (BA, MyTravel, Britannia to name a few) - and if they are so keen on jet FNPTIIs and you apply to them with a turboprop MCC behind you you are giving yourself one disadvantage that your contemporaries who have done jet MCCs and are applying for the same positions do not have.
MCC may be a minimum standard, but who says you have to aim for the minimum? If you do your MCC with a good FTO with a reputation for providing good JOC training (I could name a few but wont!), then your certificate will carry more weight than one from a school using an "upturned orange crate with a few dials in it". This is because the MCC course was conducted by the same instructors on the same equipment as used to provide those respected JOCs.
Basic MCC of 15 hours is laughably inadequate, but that does not mean that it is not valuable. If you do a GOOD MCC course, you will learn a lot in those 15 hours that will be invaluable when you go for selection. You do not learn as much as a BA or MYT trainee on a JOC but they have 44 and 52 hourse respectively. But you are allowed to do more than the basic number of hours.
Think about this folks - the MCC course aims to fill 15 hours with the stuff that a 44 hour JOC contains - you will experience it all, learn a lot but never achieve a real degree of fluency and familiarity. However, spend a few extra quid at the end of your MCC on buying a few extra hours to get some manual flying practice, with the motion switched on, practicing flightdeck management under high workloads and exploring more of the skills needed to be an effective airline pilot and you WILL do better on that selection sim ride than if you just did the basic MCC - the rules of which require it to be flown on autopilot.
Question: how many airlines do selection sim rides? A: Most of them.
Q: How many do it on jets? A: Most of them.
Q: How many let you use the autopilot? A: None of them!
Q: If you should end up doing that sim evaluation on a prop, how much spare capacity do you have if you have flown the procedures and holds at jet speeds but are then evaluated at turboprop speeds? A: Loads - as a mate of mine has just found out on his Flybe selection (he got the job).
Further suggestion: even if you do your MCC on a TP, jet some synthetic jet handling time in somewhere as well.
Last edited by moggie; 3rd June 2003 at 17:23.