Originally Posted by
fatsopilot
Unless I am misinterpreting Part 121 regs, not a single one of these pilots will be an airline captain without undergoing either the full initial training of another airline or the upgrade training at their current airline.
correct.....but if they win Powerball they could buy a CL-65 and legally just jump in the left seat with a fresh AMEL ticketed buddy in the right seat and just blast off......or convince a naive corporate dept that they were in fact PIC. Back in '05 or so the MEM FSDO started yanking the CL-65 type ratings of some pinnacle captains that couldn't pass IOE for this very reason.