Wouldn't it be interesting to log time base upon location? A Pacific Northwest column, Alaska column... How can we adequately quantify "toughness"?
I find it a little bit silly for folks to throw large amounts of money at twin engine airplanes, when more valuable experience can be had in a single (in my mind). I'd rather fly with a person with lots of actual versus a person with lots of multi.
I wonder if there is a correlation to high amounts of multi time and being better prepared to fly 135/121? Is that why multi is in demand? It seems companies could require higher amounts of the times instead and get experienced pilots.
Finally, I certainly feel that sim time does matter, and I probably should have ranked the sim much higher than I did.
Best,