Well, there is a reason why I would be sitting in front of you now as opposed to those other thousands of people. Because, you chose to put me at that table! Job vacancy filling is a two way street. Yes, there are usually plenty of applicants for any pilot job but a much smaller number of them are safe, experienced, and competent enough make it through training, let alone meet the min requirements. Airlines want pilots that will do the job for the crap pay AND be experienced/competent and in my experience, those two aspects in an applicant's file are usually inversely proportional (meaning more experience = MUCH less likely to work for crap).

As for the log book question, I have logged PIC on every single occasion I have ever been present for in every single airplane I have ever had the legal grounds to do so, including the, "Hey! Wanna give it a try?" 0.8hrs here and there. Note the word LOGGED, meaning that I was sole manipulator of the flight controls for an airplane that I was rated in. No, I do not know the landing gear extension sequence in the PC-12 but I do know that if you pull back on the yoke, it goes upwards during cruise. I log time like that because I can say I have flown it before. When it comes time for an interview, I will do the research and learn as much as I reasonably can about said airplane however, unless I flew the airplane on a regular basis/have been trained in it/owned it, I see no reason to learn the gear extension sequence. I would think that my explanation of the time, including all of the proper 14 CFR references, would be something an interviewer would hold as a sought after characteristic in a pilot.

All this being said, I wouldn't be the one who says he used to fly the PC-12 and talk about how much better it is than other airplanes n such like that because I do not have nearly enough experience in the airplane to know such things. People who do proclaim a huge depth of knowledge about an airplane they only have 0.8 hrs in shouldn't get the job because that pilot is cocky and probably reckless unless of course they actually do know the airplane inside and out.