From: nuny@fjukkin.bidness   
      
   Eeyore  wrote in   
   news:4606FA19.2B381C5A@hotmail.com:   
      
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   > Mxsmanic wrote:   
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   >> Eeyore writes:   
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   >> > Uh ?  Ab-initio training involves getting a PPL first anyway.   
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   >> Why can't you get that flying only large airliners from the   
   >> beginning?   
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   > PPLs don't apply to such aircraft.   
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   >> 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.   
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   > Is that what you think ?   
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   > 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.   
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   >> > Do you think they put beginners in heavy twins to begin with ?   
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   >> 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.   
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   > It's not how it's done.   
      
   How the fjukk woudl you know, planespotter wannabe?   
      
      
      
   Bertie   
      
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