Originally Posted by Cubdriver

There's an added advantage to building extra ME Pearl, using the excellent advice given above, which is that if you have say 200 hours of ME dual given you can choose a better regional to work for. With about 200 hours the selection looks a lot rosier. You can choose one of the better regionals to work for, say ASA/XJT/Skywest to name a few. If a regional is posting higher ME minimums, that would seem to indicate they are more serious about culling those applicants from the pile who are not ready to fly faster airplanes. It's to your advantage to avoid any regional (GLA/TSA to name a few) where they are playing fast and loose with pass/fail rates, because they are too cheap to spend 5 bucks on training. Even after you start fly the line, QOL will be somewhat better also.