Originally Posted by rickair7777

The two airlines are owned by the same company, but they are two separate airlines with different SOPs, cultures, and service geography.

IFR is easy, especially in the east where things are relatively flat. Helo IFR experience is GTG.

IMO the concern is landing skills and low-level aircraft handling skills, particularly the second-nature ability that come with doing a lot of them. SKW operates to small fields with extremely constrained geography, high winds, and potential ice/contamination...that's probably driven the culture to value stick-and-rudder skills as much as IFR. Helo stick and rudder is not the same.