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Mach Decimal 92
Do you understand the difference between required and preferred?
- 1000 hours PIC in jet aircraft is preferred; multi-engine turbo-prop aircraft, 12,500 pounds or greater; certain single engine turbo-prop aircraft, or combination thereof. A minimum of 500 hours PIC as described is required.
He may indeed have acquired some TPIC somewhere else, but it can't be done as an FO.