Type-rated Pilot Prospect

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Re: Type-rated Pilot Prospect

Postby analyzer » Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:40 pm

After you complete flight school, you obtain a CPL/ATPL, and the plane that you flew in flight school would be most likely a twin engine. After you complete flight school, and say get to work with MAS or AirAsia, you can't simply jump into the right hand seat and fly the plane.

You need to complete a type rating before flying that specific aircraft. Not to mention you have to first do a jet conversion before a type rating. So, if you work with MAS, you'd have to complete a B734/B738 type rating to be certified, to be able to fly the aircraft. In the case of AirAsia, you need a A320 type rating to fly that aircraft.

In short, type rating is an additional requirement on top of your CPL/ATPL license to operate a specific commercial aircraft.

dinos9 wrote:Then the requirement to get the type rating is by paying upfront payment of 30k USD? Or it's actually involved any addition trainings?

Typically, type rating can be done at the airlines you are hired from. But if you have money to complete a type rating on your own, you can get any type rating you choose. For example, after completing your CPL/ATPL, you could go ahead and get a A380 type rating in Toulouse if you want. Then you could apply to airlines as a direct entry pilot to fly their A380's. That said, I don't know anyone that did such a thing. Also note that airlines have their own requirements if they would let you fly their A380's without any prior experience on twin-jet operations and no PIC hours.

Type rating certification involves hours on a flight simulator and most certainly ground school, to familiarise yourself with the aircraft (i.e. aircraft specific operations, electrics/avionics of that specific aircraft). It's like your driving license, you need to get your L (in this case, learn the aircraft systems) and then your P (simulator training).
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Re: Type-rated Pilot Prospect

Postby The Handsome Boy » Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:56 pm

thanks for the explanations....
now i got it clear....
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Re: Type-rated Pilot Prospect

Postby dirtybungs » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:17 am

This is what happening outside Malaysia, with Indonesia being the closest example.

Sadly, not many kids from this forum know and understand the reality of aviation industry. Paying your own type rating has been going on for years now and sim operators are making heaps of money.

In India, with type rating, cant really bring you anywhere. There're loads more.

Air Asia used to run the closest example of this during its early days of inception with self sponsored cadets but i havent heard new cases for the past 2 years.
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