(MPL) It's brilliant, anyway thread drift.
Simply a cheaper way to get bums on seats. Any outfit worth it's salt could easily train into the worst "real" pilot the ins and outs of two-crew jet flying. The greatest cause of accidents now is LOC; in the time given, an MPL person simply cannot have the stick and rudder skills necessary to reduce the LOC accident rate. Without extensive initial ongoing recurrent sim training (which isn't happening) stick and rudder "experience" will never be gained by an MPL.