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Let us get this clear, until you have completed the course and been issued with a licence, you operate on a students licence.
Remain under the ATO control until the type rating and the base training is complete. At present 12 take-off and landings, although there are moves a foot to reduce this to the normal six.
Once you have satisfied the base training, the MPL is applied for.
For the normal CPL/IR route once the course is completed, which is usually passing the IRST and course hours satisfied, you apply for licence issue.
Multi crew aspirations require the MCC certificate, followed by successful type rating issue.
The two routes are now at the same point, ready to start the line training.
Given the multi crew training etc already provided through the MPL route, then they have the clear advantage over the "normal route" with only the MCC experience (+any JOC). Probably different (subtle) SOPs as well to unlearn.
I am assuming two guys of equal competency. So there is catch up required, and in time, it should be difficult to spot the difference.
There are critics of the MPL route. I would speculate that if they actually spoke to someone who delivers the training, it would ease their mind considerably.
Burning holes in the sky to satisfy some historical rule of 100 hours P1 prior to CPL issue simply has no merit these days.
Last edited by parkfell; 3rd Sep 2017 at 17:00.
Reason: Syntax