Any King Air operated under JAR ops for commercial use will have 2 crew. Gama are looking for around half a dozen such F/O's for their new Scottish Air Ambulance contract but due to the nature of the work I think they prefer some previous experience operating in a demanding environment. I would imagine most of their new hires will not have much more experience than right out of flight school however.
As for paying for a type rating, I think you will find that smaller operators are more interested in the person than the rating and therefore would be more keen to type rate the right person. Low cost airlines generally could not give a rats @rse about their employees so welcome anyone with the rating, and there must be about 20 times the 73's in the UK than B200's...
