I'm afraid experience is only one piece of the puzzle. Many would agree that a fair chunk of applicants with loads of hours are still useless for an operation like this...
I might be stupid, or just plain naive, but would you please explain how plenty of hours experience in 'complex/high performance' turbine hours flown at flight levels, commercially etc etc are 'usueless' for an operation like VQ?
So how do you work out if these guys with experience at the rung below jets have any or all of the pieces of the puzzle, unless you call them in and evaluate them?
Or do you just pull a guy straight out of a C310 and hope he doesn't chew up numerous extra sectors of line training before they reach line standard, because they would be 'happy in the RHS for 8 years until they get a chance to go to command'?