I believe that the next generation of MCL pilots will have obnoxious and difficult personalities, but probably will be better trained for the airline environment. I have always thought that most of what pilots have to go through to obtain a standard Commercial Multi-engine license was a waste to someone with exclusive airline intentions.

The MCL will make it much cheaper to get professional credentials and they will come with a much better understanding of airline operations and air transport flying since that is all that they will have studied.

Years ago when I was a student pilot I showed a sectional chart to a Delta DC-10 captain. He was one of my best friends fathers and was kind enough to have attempted to answer an aviation question that I had. When I showed him the map he developed a twisted look on his face and then asked me what it was that I had presented him. He did not know what a sectional was since in his entire career he had never even seen one before. He went strait into the Navy after college and told me that he only spent ten hours in a piston plane before moving on. He has zero understanding of VFR operations and did not need to know either. Since that time I have encountered many airline pilots with a similar lack of knowledge of VFR operations.

Much of what we train for as civilian pilots is a wasted effort to a airline pilot. The MCL will offer employers and cadets the ability to focus on part 121 stuff.

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