Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
Not to be a pain but how much do you know about “Airline training” in Europe?
https://www.pilotcareernews.com/blac...avia-training/
The MPL program mentioned in this article is 22(!) months. Then it’s right seat 737.
Thats a far cry from a Part 61 3-months Commercial then right seat Regionals.
Same number of hours.
You tell me if there’s a difference.
The difference is that once you get to the right seat of an airliner, there are some things which you stop learning because the operation is safety buffered to keep you away from many "learning opportunities".
The bigger the airliner, the less opportunity to learn basic airplane stuff. Long haul is mostly computer programming and plotting ETOPS waypoints. Maybe a landing every few weeks (or maybe just a quarterly trip to the sim).
IMO book learning and computer programming don't make up for lack of airplane experience (I'm well educated and I even know how to write code).