Setting aside the legalities, which alone prevent him from taking this assigment, the notion of not needing the adequate training and qualification (and I'm not talking legal qualification) is ludicruous and intensely stupid.
Just to put the record straight, I was never for one moment expecting to not do a Lear type rating - obviously I would want to do that. And I have a lot more than 200hours - I don't know where that came in. My ATPL is still frozen just because I don't have much time on dual pilot aircraft, not because of lack of total hours. My question was just whether strictly I would have to do an FAA CPL. It seems that I will have to do an FAA CPL from a legal viewpoint, even if from a strictly flying point of view it is a waste of time and money.