"No not a toy, a flying sausage"
Ok MUNT, I'll Bite,
Many years ago I asked my then employer what the rational was behind such high mins for some of the twin jobs around, including ours. I'll never forget her answer.
"It's not the fact that you need all those hours to efficiently fly the beast. It's that after that level of exposure to that sort of commercial ops, you've probably made a s#*tload of mistakes at someone else's expense, and having survived the experience, are unlikely to make the same mistakes with us."
That my friend is the real measure of experience.
Whilst we had these high mins, the Brisbane based operator associated with us operated Metro's. In their ranks were quite a few young guns that enjoyed some very rapid sucession. And good luck to them. One of them a very nice chap, all of 22, and by all accounts a very skillful operator, made some poor operation decisions one day and flew his metro straight into a hill at over 200kts!
I have over 2,000 hours on Metro 23's MUNT, and your statement only highlights some of the problems that face our industry today.