When I hit the line I didnt have 100 hours in type yet so I had to tell the captain that I didnt have my 100 hours consolidation of knowledge yet- most guys were cool and would say things like "well I am sure I will teach you something" and they were really nice. Some asked the question- are you a ATP or Gulfstream guy? I would answer "no" and the next question was "well how much time do you have?" When I told them they would chill out and say something to the effect of "you have flown a plane before!" or " wow, someone who actually meets the published mins". the scary thing is that out of the people who didnt make it through all the way to the line we figured out that (in my class at least) it was a 50/50 split between really low timers and the other half being higher time guys. We had one guy leave during sims when he had over 2500 hours and 1500 hours in lears- explain that... So evidently some of the guys can do it, and if not I guess they just learn quickly... ... I still think 800/100 should be the bare mins but thats just my opinion. What will be interesting to see is what happpens when all these guys/gals reach captain seniority but cant upgrade due to the 3000 hours company min...