These are the minimum hours that were specified in an RFP for a UN contract in Afghanistan. The table is from the DPKO Aviation manual. Yes they do seem extreme especially for the hrs on type requirement. The same hours were specified regardless of aircraft type.
Pilot in Command
Actual Flight Hours in all types 1500
Actual flight Hours as PIC of type aircraft BID 500
Actual Instrument Flight Hours 75
Actual Night Flight Hours 100
First Pilot/Co-Pilot
Actual Flight Hours in type aircraft bid 100
but this was raised to 300 hrs if the PIC had less than 1700hrs total.
No allowance was given for pilots who were perhaps flying someithiing like Dash 8 or ATR 72 then reverting back to B200.
Yes the UN is indeed one of the most uptight bureaucratic and incompetent organisation I ever worked for. But they do pay good bucks
Unless you are a pilot. Then you are at the mercey of whatever the contracted charter company like AirServ or PacTec pay. I wouldn't have got out of bed for the money they were offering.
And as South Coast said, the UN org I was with never actually checked crew log books to ensue compliance with the hour requirement. But it would not be in the operators interest to allow pilots without the specified hours fly as their (company's) name would be forever on a UN sh1t list.