Originally Posted by
rickair7777
5 hours dual is perfectly reasonable.
However...regional interviewers will often focus in on the most sophisticated aircraft in your logbook. Conventional wisdom is that you'll need to know procedures and systems well, and they may try to assign you to an interviewer with King Air experience. You may want to weigh the benefit of those 5 hours against the need to learn all the systems.
This is not accurate. Remember, it is 5 hours of DUAL. The interviewers will assume that a low time pilot had the chance to fly a king air with an instructor. The questions will be more like "I see you have 5 hours of dual in a king-air. What did you do in the airplane and tell us what you learned from this experience." You will NOT be asked to describe the the type of engines, fuel system, etc in detail. Can you imagine a regional airline going out of their way to find a King Air pilot to then drill someone on the electrical system of a king-air with only 5 hours of dual?? That's absurd!