but whether you’ve flown the same type for a different airline, or just came from pistons, you get 25 hrs.
Because the regulator demands minimum 25. I belive its also 8 sectors, not?
My first jet was 80 hrs and 40 sectors with 20 prescribed destinations to visit. So that the line captains did not need to mentor that much.
If commonly in your region it is the absolute minimum line training amount that is given to candidates who themselves barely qualify,.... there must be other arrangements which fill the obviously missing part. Previous real-life flying exposure is a good guess.
As observed many times before, the right side of Atlantic leans towards the institutionalised. The left side on doing things. But hey, no two tetris games are the same, just keep filling the blank spaces. The outcome becomes the same, despite different playing strategies.