While I hate to rain on a newbie's parade, the way the ferry business commonly works:
Shorter-range (up to say 1500 nm with standard tanks, so that would be King Airs and the like) aircraft are 'tanked' to allow enough fuel to be carried to make the 2300nm crossing from the west coast of the USA to Hawaii. That amount of fuel will put most aircraft types over MTOW with minimum crew aboard. So, the ferry company gets an over-weight permit from the FAA. The permit may have restrictions on it like no take-offs over populated areas etc.
If the aircraft is certified single pilot, only one pilot will normally be aboard. Insurance may even specify that, and of course weight and en-route expenses incurred by excess crew must be considered. If the aircraft requires two pilots, under the FAA system at least one must be type-rated and the other familiar with the type. Insurance will certainly dictate recency on type for the PIC and may do so for the co-pilot. Often the nominal PIC is rated on type but not experienced as a ferry pilot. He/she is what we call 'meat-in-the-seat'. The REAL person calling the shots is employed by the ferry company because of his/her experience in the overall complexities of ferry flying.
With due respect, a 300 hour CPL would only be regarded as unwanted ballast on a long-range ferry.
One exception - many years ago I had to ferry a F27 from New York to Sydney. It had no auto-pilot. My assistant was a very cute female PPL who also could fly very accurately. A great human auto-pilot. Unfortunately, she insisted on her husband accompanying her. He was a CPL but could not fly as well as his wife, so we made him do all the dirty work like re-fuelling.
People in the ferry business are very territorial. The only way I know for low hour pilots to get in to it is in the USA. where, if they know the right people and have some other useful skill - like an A & P Certificate - they start out doing the tanking, then get the odd ferry on light aircraft within the USA itself, then maybe (if they speak Spanish) a few trips south of the border.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 23rd May 2013 at 02:35.