Originally Posted by
Westerner
You can't take the written without the sim training, and the sim training you get in 121 isn't allowed, so there is extra sim and classroom time required that's prohibitively expensive at this point.
It's very simple, you take the cockpit procedures training segment of the training in the simulator. The path for airlines to do this has been laid out already, there is just minor changes to the training curriculum.
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