For what it is worth Colgan upgrades are running at around 2.5 years.

As FlyJsh said, Colgan likely will not hire anyone now without 1800 hours unless they have a rec.

The good news is you have TONS of time to do some research. When half of us started the best regionals are no longer the best, the worst are no longer the worst and half of them have or will have new names and logos on their tails.