Originally Posted by Mason32

You are correct, it IS an arbitrary number.... it's the arbitrary number the FAA makes you have to have to fly boxes under 135 as PIC IFR.... if you can't fly boxes in a Cessna 172 under IFR as PIC in a small 135 operation, what makes you qualified to carry people in a transport category part 121 operation?

it's a loophole in the system that is well overdue being fixed.

Oh, and one last thing. You will make more command decisions flying that C150 around the pattern a few hundred times, then you will EVER make as an FO at one of the regional carriers; and THAT'S what Quality Experience is.