Originally Posted by
sheppey
From a Middle Eastern incident report: The A320 Captain was found to have 17300 total flying hours including 6400 on type and was accompanied by a First Officer with 279 total flying hours, all on type. The 737 Captain was found to have 12600 total flying hours including 7100 on type and 1800 hours in command on all types and was accompanied by a First Officer with 412 total flying hours including 186 on type.
USA have a regulation requiring the minimum flight time for a pilot on airline flying is 1500 hours. Reading the above it is worrying that a second in command of a large transport jet can safely be second in command with a total of only 279 hours all on type? Surely that is wrong information. Is that the result of an MPL?
Never heard about "ab initio programs"?