For the life of me, I don’t get the obsession with C206 time. I’d have thought genuine remote area experience in anything that defies gravity, especially in the areas your desired future employer operates would be far more useful. I don’t see how 30 hours tooling around Victoria in a C206 is more useful than 100 hours in a C-150 hopping around the Kimberlys in the wet season.
Easy to teach someone to fly anything your company’s way, not so easy to teach thinking out of the box.
45 years ago there wasn’t any black art to running an IO520, today it appears you need a thermodynamics degree to lean it and manage MP, RPM and the cowl flaps. In 1500 hours of 206/207/210 back then, I never heard of any premature engine rebuilds. What’s changed?