Could happen, Bristow used to stick new CPL holders with approx. 250 hours on SAR units a long time ago. The bar has raised somewhat but perhaps not high enough to prevent that again.
The only thing stopping that will be the level of applications and the 'best judgement' of the HR/recruiting team. Since this is high profile and needs to work, they will choose wisely
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HRH WW was from scratch with experienced staff, after 2 weeks he was flying in command
so it is likely to happen in the Civ world too, albeit it will be about closer to 10 years before a low time make command
The MOD has internal audits for these standards, but at mega billions of tax payers £'s. It should have been under tighter scrutiny by the NAO, perhaps the expensive beast that has been MIL SAR would have been axed years ago
Anyway......it has now. It needs good crews, it will get them barring a few numpties that will get in, much like they did into the RAF/RN/Civ world of flying. Probably ok on Non-SAR ops but not really what we want. Hopefully keep HR out of the decision, use good word of mouth and bob's your Uncle! People do get moved on you know
That's why we have audits (closed session chats as well
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