compare to civil aviation
As this turns out to be more like a “royalty” discussion, where I as an Austrian can’t really comment I would like to get back to the apparently usual low time military training.
I have a high regard for the training military pilots get and there is surely no comparison to a civil low time trying to stack up flight time, but I’m not sure if we compare the right things. In civil flying there is no 200h SAR pilot! In no company in Europe or America pilots for EMS / SAR are having below 1500 - 2000h. Flying 2000 hours in civil aviation will put you in a lot of situations military training won’t get you in!
No matter how intense the training was, I think as a SAR pilot one should have more experience (they could get it through flying “normally” in the troops or where ever within the Army).
Anyhow it is a great chance for those two guys and I wish them all the best!