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GolfFoxtrot

14th Mar 2001, 20:17

Hi Guys

Does anyone know anything about these new modular ground and flying courses leading to CPL(IR)/Frozen ATPL. Are they just the old BCPL system back under a new European name? This was the route I was and am still intending to take in a couple of years time.

RVR800

14th Mar 2001, 20:51

No they are not 'just..

They take longer
They cost more
and they are more difficult..

Noggin

15th Mar 2001, 17:04

The BCPL was a 25 hour Modular course. There was a 10 hour credit for holders of an IMC rating.

The JAR-FCL CPL course is a 25 hour Modular course with no credit for an IMC rating.

The examinations are no more difficult, they are just different. You do have to take an approved groundschool course either full time, or part time + correspondence before you can sit the exams.

You do not have to build up 700 hours to operate commercially under the JAA system. The IR course is longer 55 hours, 50 if you have a CPL of which up to 40 can be conducted in a STD (Sim).

Generally speaking, lots of new names but what you do is just about the same.