Sidestickhumper,
It's got nothing to do with 200 vs. 6500 hrs. - he will not need 6500 hrs for the job he's being hired to do. A 200 hr. guy is on the lower limit of the band (and a lot of them prefer - say - 1500 hrs). But give him 1500 hrs., just for general experience & getting used to the whole spatial orientation thingy, and he/she will be allright.
So our 6500 hrs guy is - believe it or not - overqualified. Not good for command gradient issues, and might take more of an "un-learning curve" than a learning curve to do. Since the latter is always steeper than the former (for most people), it really is a no-brainer from the training & fltops department point of view.
That being said, I recently transitioned from TPs to jets (ok, only a 73, but still
) and I must say - it's more than doable. Fair 'nuff, you need to learn to fly a different set of numbers, but I refuse to believe that people cannot adapt to flying a 3 deg. + 10 NM rather than 3 deg. profile. The command qualities needed are not that much different, crew's a bit larger, company pressures grow, and passenger behaviour turns for the worse. OK, so you have to grow an extra layer of leather and be more ready to show the company and punters that this crew is not the one they want to take on at this particular time in their lives.
I take it you have a lot of TP experience as captain - well, if interested, drop me a PM. You never know...
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