One final small but quite important little possible clincher in all of this might be which aircraft would provide the more amusing sort of flying?
C206 in the swamps without a doubt, but then again I'm a Luddite.
Most respectable interviewers are more interested in multi and command time. There's no mystique about turbines and the initial rating is easily carried out while being type rated. These days the first few hours on turbines are carried out in the right seat in any case so it's all pretty moot. I get the idea it's the quickie-twice-around-the-patch operators who want turbine time to avoid having to pay for an initial rating while bonding you till your wallet squeaks.
2c worth. Use, don't use.
