Mxsmanic wrote:

Eeyore writes:

Uh ? Ab-initio training involves getting a PPL first anyway.

Why can't you get that flying only large airliners from the beginning?

PPLs don't apply to such aircraft.


Also, requirements vary from one jurisdiction to another. And technically,
you can easily learn to pilot airliners from simulator experience exclusively,
without ever stepping into a real aircraft.

Is that what you think ?

In actual fact you may be right that's it's enirely possible but basic piloting
skills are deemed an essential ingedient of the package.


Do you think they put beginners in heavy twins to begin with ?

I think that in some places they put complete novices in simulators and train
them to be airline pilots in a year or less. It's entirely possible.

It's not how it's done.

Graham