Multi-Crew Pilot License, Anybody?
 

So, gang, what do y'all think of the MPL?
For those of you who aren't familiar, the Multi-Crew Pilot License is an ICAO initiative that's very similar to ab-initio training in other countries. New pilots would be trained from day one to operate in a crew environment on a transport category aircraft, with a significant amount of flying done in a simulator. Holders of an MPL would not be allowed to fly outside of a crew environment (no $100 hamburger trips) unless they picked up an ASEL/AMEL ticket.

I'd love to be a subcontractor training all these guys. $$!!

It seems to me that the ability to fly effectively in a single-pilot environment is just as important as flying in a crew environment. I'd be a little leary of it.

Scared Poopless of MPL. I learned what I know about flying by damn near killing myself on many an occasion in a single-engine aircraft! Wouldn't trade that for the world!

What happens if the Captain becomes incapacitated? I wouldn't want to be in the back of that plane.

sounds like a stupid idea

Amen! Let's take a guy that's never made a single-pilot decision in his life, and give him his first opportunity to do so when he's got a full-boat of souls on board!

Oh come on, vectors to a coupled ILS approach wouldn't be that hard.

The foriegners have a better chance of making it work than we do...they are used to low-timers in airliners, and their screening requirements for pilot candidates are usually quite high (this doesn't replace experience, but it's better than nothing).

It'll be the death of our profession (what is left of it). Flying airplanes will become a trade that will be hired off the street. The only thing worse than 250 hour pilots for dealing with management are ab-initios who know absolutely nothing else.