Sure the regionals want less for their copilots. But in the last year, every job I've seen requiring a Learjet SIC has wanted about 2,500 TT, 500-1,000 ME and some turbine time. In a world where disgruntled, unemployed Barbie Jet FOs are a dime a dozen, 750 hours with no ME seems a little bit less than competitive; especially with the early model Learjet's learning curve. Of the guys I know who have flown the slew of RJ models and Lear, it's not even in the same ballpark in terms of performance and instability. Just sayin'.

What's fishy to me is that a company advertises for such peculiarly low times, but mandates that you have a CFI. I know a guy who instructed till he was blue in the face, got hired by a charter outfit, and just about never did an actual 135 flight. Why? Because he was the only pilot at the FBO with a CFI, and they just continued to use him as an instructor. Hence my hesitation to leave instructing for a 135 job when it appears the "charter" work will be little more than instructing at a company that happens to have a 135 cert.