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NASA
The regionals are a dangerous place to be learning how to fly a twin engine aircraft. I, myself got hired at a regional with 300 hours back in the 90s but we had a thorough sim evaluation and initial training was up or out attitude, no second chances..We were also required to do a turbine transition course in a beech 1900 level d sim...All before starting initial new hire training..With my whopping 300 hours I had 70 hours multi time..These minimums were for flightsafety academy interns/instructors..Normal mins for regionals were around 1200TT/200 multi and American Eagle and Business Express required 1500TT/300 multi..How times have changed..
I had over 300 hours of "real life" multi-time when I got hired at my first 121 airline. Outside of the 15hours I spent getting my multi ticket, I never once used those "specialized" multi-techniques if you will, before I got hired. So in essence my experience at 15hrs or 300hrs flying my multi like a single was no different. Just an observation. YMMV
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