who's going to swap a TOM FO jet job with all the add ons to fly as a Captain on a Dash for less dosh/ work twice as hard and be treated like sh*t?
I think that one sentence sums it up perfectly!
As for the weight limitation etc, let's just say that I wouldn't want to be the person going directly into the left hand seat of a dash with 1001 PIC hours on a Chieftain/Kingair and with a brand new FO in the RHS. I agree it's not the space shuttle, and it's not
that hard to fly, but I'd rather do my multi-crew airline ops learning curve from the right hand seat. I don't see the requirements as they stand as being particularly restrictive.