Originally Posted by
CaptainNameless
The MCL will (most likely) never happen at any regional. Are you aware how little training an MCL has? Something like 60 flight hours in a piston single and 200 hours in a simulator. These most junior crew members should not even really be called pilots at the MCL level. If the captain becomes incapacitated enroute, there has to be a competent pilot remaining to land the airplane safely. So if you operate a 2 man crew, a real pilot (#3) would still be needed on board somewhere to step in. An MCL apprentice would never be allowed to be the crew of last resort.
Well how many hours do you think it take to make a pilot competent enough to land a commercial airliner. Last I checked we are not making a trap at night in high seas. Also from personally experience plenty of pilots with around 200 hours did just fine getting through Pinnacles training program and succefuly completed OE. There is a myth that hours equates to abitlity to do the job and it is only that a. MYTH. Ask anyone in any training department anywhere if using the metric of hours is at all substantive and they will likely tell you it is not.