Airline Cadets are going to be on a type rating course next week - no wonder their sponsoring airline combines an MCC and JOC course on a fancy jet Sim. That no good reason why poor self sponsored Joe Bloggs should part with thousands of pounds of his own money trying to emulate them.
Sure sure we'd all like to go to the biggest shiniest school, use the nicest newest big sims, perhaps do the CPL on a twin for more multi time etc. etc. BUT WE CAN'T AFFORD IT CAUSE ITS SO BLIMMIN EXPENSIVE.
MCC is a prime area where cost cutting won't hurt you.
All this talk of being good prep for a sim assessment is a total red herring. As I have outlined above there are better more pertinent ways to prepare for an airline sim assessment than by doing an expensive MCC months or years before you ever even get an airline interview.
You could pass an MCC by watching an ITVV 'from the flightdeck video' 20 times. How you operate a checklist, how you do a brief and how you crosscheck everything with the other guy - all shown in digital stereo colour for £11.99 from Transair.
Its not rocket science. People used to quite hapily jump into airliners with 200hrs and no MCC and manage quite well thank you very much.
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