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That 500hr time on type rule for the UN on B200 and the like is silly.
That is what happens when you get non-aviation backround, pencil monkey desk jockeys in a position of authority over a ruling like that, bottom line.
500 time on type, for a King Air???....And then a few hundred for right seat in a B200??...That plane doesn't even need a copilot! (I know a second set of eyes is nice to have, but you could run just as safe an operation single pilot)...I went as a PIC in Afghanland as well on the Be200, didn't have the 500 time on type either.