Hmmm ... before sept 11th 1,000 hours might have had some sort of relevance, I got my first interview just past the 1,000 hour mark myself and the tone of my rejection letters became much nicer from the rest of the operators. Now it seems that they'll bin your CV just as quickly as the 5,000 hour turboprop jockey who's just been made redundant ... simple fact is that when there AINT NO JOBS it doesn't matter how many hours you've got. Not for you with 1,000 - not for me with 1,500 - and indeed not for a few of my pals with upwards of 5 thousand (including 3,000 jet), who are all busy applying to the same turboprop operators that we are - the ones who 'used' to be the 1,000 hour pilot hirers <img src="frown.gif" border="0">
Bah. Wait for mid next year for ANY kind of hiring to resume, and then we'll see what sort of hours people are getting hired with ... methinks it'll be a while before it gets back down below 1,000 (for us self improvers anyway <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> )