What a lot of you are forgetting is that the minimums is nothing more than a set number to limit the number of applicants, hence why it is an ever changing number. My good friend at Continental got on with Eagle when he had something in the neighborhood of 3000-1000ME. Keep in mind that was in a different market. Many of the FBO flight schools around the country cannot even afford to keep "A" multi engine plane as the insurance costs for a rental twin SEVERELY outweigh the gains. In the entire central Indiana area there is 1 twin for rent. The next closest place is an hour drive up to Purdue. You cannot seriously expect an applicant to have 2000ME to go to a regional job, its just not practical especially in this economy.