Soooo tired of hearing about the 300 hour wonder crap....I came to Pinnacle with under 300..Along with 2/3rds of my class who are all still here...Have been here over 3 years and have enough time for upgrade now. Never had a sense of entitlement. Never failed a checkride or line check. Have been told numerous times I'm a good stick from the very start. Have made or helped make decisions that have saved captains a$$es on multiple occasions. Are you serious???? Some of our worst pilots are the salty old dogs with tons and tons of hours that either don't care or just get complacent. A 300 hour guy or a 1000 hour guy is just a number when starting out for the first time in 121....behind the plane either way, but the fundamentals are there or aren't regardless of the slight difference in time. That's on the individual. A pilot is a pilot by that point. Lots of the junior Captains we have were Gulfstream guys with low time when they started and I feel safer in the cockpit with any one of them over these nameless senior guys we've all flown with who have a$$ loads of time and experience but make stupid decisions or forget stuff left and right. Lots of our FO's who were prior airline or Military and had thousands and thousands of hours are horrible pilots...Heard this from numerous Captains. So like I said it's all about the individuals piloting ability and decision making and not an arbitrary number....