Flybe MPL

The OAA / Flybe Multi-Crew Pilots Licence (MPL) Airline Pilot Training Scheme for 2010

As one of the leading regional airline’s in Europe, with an expanding aircraft fleet, flybe has a requirement to recruit high calibre, new First Officers who have completed a quality ab-initio training scheme. The ab-initio route now includes a new, highly innovative international training scheme, the MPL course. This course is designed from the outset to produce high quality First Officers able to move straight into the right hand seat of flybe’s advanced Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 on graduation from OAA.

flybe and Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) have a long-standing relationship and OAA graduates already routinely join the airline direct from training. The great majority have completed OAA’s existing premier APP First Officer integrated training course but, with effect from last year’s entry into training, the OAA MPL course is expected to be the standard cadet entry route into flybe in lieu of APPFO.

The scheme reflects both OAA and flybe's recognition that professional flight training is expensive. Together we wish to ensure only carefully selected individuals enter the career by providing a focussed MPL course and appropriate mentorship and support. Furthermore, successful applicants will all benefit from OAA’s financial guarantee package, the Skills Protection Plan (SPP), which effectively secures students against the financial cost of failure during training. Ultimately, the MPL course offers the affordable cost and minimal risk of the existing assisted airline pilot scheme but, additionally, now offers a bespoke multi-crew training approach from the outset, and provides all the requisite training to qualify, immediately upon graduation from Phase 4, for employment as a first officer on the Q400 without further training.