Wouldn't work with the local pilots in the ever growing larger Middle Eastern airlines, Checkboard - those lads insist on being on the biggest piece of metal possible from Day 1. Years ago now, someone recognised the looming problem as discussed in the posts above in one very large Middle Eastern airline. At that airline's home port was (still is) a thriving local freight operation running a half dozen Beech 1900s - lots of sectors, lots of night work, no autopilot, so with very little effort, there was lots of stick time available for the large airline's cadets going begging before they moved onto the heavy metal, in a situation the big airline's training department could easily oversee.
It never got past the suggestion stage, for it was pointed by the people who know such things out that if they made the local cadets spend a year or two on the Beech 1900s after completing their initial training, they would have extreme difficulty in attracting anyone into their cadet scheme.