Originally Posted by freightdog

If you knew someone who flies a metro then you would understand why for the high time requirements. It's a lot of airplane in the beginning. Especially for street hires; having to learn the "Ameriflightisms" and the aircraft.

For example, our Beech 99 IOE/line training is about 7-10 days max with a week of ground and sims, while the Metro IOE/line training is about 2-3 weeks of flight training and the 2 weeks of ground, CPTs, and sims.

Beech 99 street hires require less time. Lately it seems that the street captains have been having between 1200-1500 TT, with a couple hundred hours of multi, and some with no previous turbine time.