Originally Posted by
FreightDogs
No problem!
Ameriflight has a waiver from the FAA. With it, we created the Accelerated Captain Program.
For that program, we hire pilots around 750-900 TT and put them in the right seat of a BE99, BE1900, or SA227. They fly SIC until they reach 1,000 TT and then they become a restricted Captain in the BE99. With being restricted, they will have a regular Ameriflight Captain as a mentor and will have slightly lower weather mins (not quite VFR, just lower than normal). Once the pilot reaches 1,200 TT, they become a regular full blown BE99 Captain.
I think FreightDogs meant to say slightly HIGHER weather mins. A restricted captain designation basically allows them to fly through IMC during cruise. Their approach minimums are almost approaching VFR numbers, so the departure and arrival airports pretty much need to be VFR. But they aren't restricted to VFR rules for the enroute portion. And then once they hit 1200 hours they automatically change to unrestricted because they have already been checked to full IFR minimums.