I'm just a CFI with a few hundred hours, I'm just trying to get an idea of what I am looking at for the future. Hopefully the regionals will start hiring in the next couple of years.
The reason why I was talking about using sim time to count towards the 500 on type, is that I am looking to do the CAE Supporting Crewmember Program, the completion of which would leave me holding a PIC Type on a bizjet and a whole bunch of sim time (and hopefully some time in the AC).
So, if you don't do the skills test in the AC on which you are typed, you have to do the 15hr IR conversion on the light twin?
I was hoping that with a couple of thousand hours on a RJ a european carrier would be interested in paying for the TR conversion. Maybe not...