Freightdog: I agree to most of your frustration about JAR licencing, and lack of coordination between JAR and FAR, but most of the flight related personnell I have talked to in "Tilsynet" are former colleagues from WF, BU and SAS, with pre-retirement, and not leisure Cessna pilots..!
But most important: Why should "...say 3-4000 hours multi crew experience from larger jets..." give you any advantage over a pilot with the same amount of flying time on a heavy turboprop...?
"Say 3-4000 hours multi crew experience from DHC8-Q400"...............? Because ANY backyard freight company give much better training than major regional companies, og because YOU are flying a "larger jet"....?