Originally Posted by
DirectTo
It's basically a way for our cheap American regional airlines to meet ICAO requirements and do international flying without giving full PIC types.
Actually it's just a label which is applied to the 121 SIC training you get anyway. The label meets the letter of the ICAO law. For those of us who were FO's when the rule was enacted all we had to do was fill out an 8710 based on our last PC.