Originally Posted by
NWA320pilot
There are plenty of qualified pilots within the USA..... If we ever see MCL it will be a long time.
Agree to a point. The "shortage (ha ha) will be at the regional level, NOT the legacy level.
Yep, there's PLENTY of regional lifers, but there's ALSO plenty of us that are ready to GTFO ASAP. Combine that with the 135 pilots, corporate pilots, separating mil pilots, etc etc etc.
The "shortage', (again, ha ha) will be at the regional level. So your point of there being plenty of qualified pilots within the U.S.A. is true. But at the level where the alleged "shortage" will be, how many of the qualified pilots will be willing to work at the wages regional pay?
Originally Posted by
Counselor
What's a multi-crew license?
It was seen as measure to get pilots into cockpits quicker, or to put "meat in the seat".
It was designed to give a pilot TONS of turbine/multi crew simulator time with VERY LITTLE ACTUAL FLIGHT TIME. A pure "apprenticeship" if you will. You can probably google the specifics, but IIRC it was less than 100 hours in ACTUAL airplanes combined with the sim time before be put into the cockpit of an airliner.
http://aviationknowledge.wikidot.com...-pilot-license
Ready to vomit after reading that?