Originally Posted by
avi8r84
Not saying that - but why not give people a go who have proved to be acceptable? What's the difference between the training for a level 2 vs direct entry? A couple of extra jump seat rides? Please, it's an FO job on a big turboprop, give people some credit. if they're good enough to be on the hold they're good enough for a job.
Apparently difference is at least 50hrs more training with a training captain just for starters. Then trying to make up the difference for the multi PIC. So across the two intakes of 12 (300 & 400), with even 50% L2 candidates, that means their training resources, which are already pretty much stretched to the limit, have to cover an extra 600hrs training for the L2 candidates.
Or if it was 50% L2 candidates per year, 2500 extra hours training per fleet.