It will eventually change. But dear me dont bracket the PC-12 into your category of Freak Show Aircraft!
Ground effect craft. You mean that RUSSIAN MONSTROCITY!
The fact is Airlines do want to recruit people, all ready with the 500Multi to aviod any hicups and reduce training costs.
This doent mean, it is the norm. I know for a fact that Air North when then operated a Caravan and then retired them. Personally I cant understand why? Caravan an new robust Aircraft, I think was the Fall Guy for losses, and due Peer Group pressure from Senior Management Pilots, it was squashed.
They absorbed the crews into their Metro and Brasilia fleets. Some of those candidates didnt have the 500Multi.
So where there is a will there is a way. Some of these guys even had lower than the 300 hr exemption.
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