Flying the MPL Route

moocow · Post by **moocow** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:57 pm

Even if the students are not paying for it, there will be some kind of bond on it. Cathay Pacific now have something call a "forgiveable loan" which you have to repay if you get fired / quit before the 6 years is up. I'm wouldn't be surprise that CX's sub-airline Dragon Air have similar bonding program with their MPL, cadet, and pre-qualified cadet programs. Same goes for Eithad's cadet program.

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:00 pm

moocow wrote:Even if the students are not paying for it, there will be some kind of bond on it. Cathay Pacific now have something call a "forgiveable loan" which you have to repay if you get fired / quit before the 6 years is up. I'm wouldn't be surprise that CX's sub-airline Dragon Air have similar bonding program with their MPL, cadet, and pre-qualified cadet programs. Same goes for Eithad's cadet program.

...and the same went for the ROTP program in Canada when I attended Military College...

ex-NWT · Post by **ex-NWT** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:59 pm

When I was capt. 737 I flew with quite a few 200 hr guys fresh out of our training school, excellent people and very well trained.
I was happy to fly with them in any situation.

Eric Janson · Post by **Eric Janson** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:28 pm

RVgrin wrote:I am the only one, or is anyone else none too crazy about the idea of a 240-hour 19-year-old kid at the helm of an airliner ( even if he is sitting next to a 1540-hour 21-year-old!) ?

I've flown with a 19 year old F/O straight out of flight school onto the 757 at a Western European airline. I had to help him out a bit when encountering new situations - I only had to tell him once. We flew together a lot - he developed into one of the best F/O's I've flown with.

At my current Airline (Asia) the hire nationals onto the A320 with 2-300TT. There is no GA here.

These cadets undergo stringent selection procedures and an extensive groundschool before starting Sim training. They get extra Sim sessions and additional line training (60+ sectors) before being released.

I spent 3.5 years flying with these cadets - had to help them out from time to time - never had to take over from them.

traveller123 · Post by **traveller123** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:33 am

Anyway, I don't think those aircrafts are really more harder to pilot than a King Air. If the guy is trained on the aircraft I don't see why he can't pilot it.

In Canada, we're normally used of 3000TT for a FO position, few countries in this world require as much time.

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