Originally Posted by
reelbigchair
Someone can obviously correct me if I'm wrong on this but I believe the common type only works one direction. I think you have to get the -200 first, and then you can get qualified -700/-900 through differences. I do not believe you can get -700/-900 and then do differences in the -200.
not correct, you can do initial type rating on any of the variants. They did 700 initial at PSA for a few months when i worked there because they were short qualified pilots, also I imagine GOJETS has to do all their training just on the 700 cause that's the only aircraft they have. It is all up to the operator and the POI.