Cue Dave Jackson stage left, with his easy-to-learn-cheap-to-operate training helicopter to make it easier to get started.
Cue peals of laughter from insurance companies at the suggestion that low hour pilots are safer overall and therefore premiums should be lower.
Cue same peals of laughter from Human Resources people who still want minimum of the magic "1000 hours" as if it's some sort of talisman to protect them from mishaps.
Just on another note, Rob, how many of those are estimated to be privately owned and operated? See, you're talking about all these new helicopters and needing pilots to operate them ... but take out the number of helicopters being bought BY the pilots who will operate them (and be the only one flying it), and you've got a statistically significant reduction in the "demand for more pilots" argument. Unless all the privately bought helicopters are being bought by people who will employ a CPL chauffeur, I can't see the picture being as rosy as you've painted it.