Back in the middle 90's, half of my CPL class here on EU vast lands started doing TGL's circuits on the L-1011 on the right hand seat right after finishing it with some 170 hours TT.
I'm not a professional pilot but my understanding is that any pilot that may end up in a transport aircraft with 250 or less hours should have been trained for that eventuality, i.e., to be fully familiar with multi-crew operations and system management, and for that training to be continued onto the flightdeck. Whether this is a good idea is open to discussion but it has largely worked to date. It seems to me that this is a very different training regime to that the unfortunate pilot in this accident went through, and with good reason.