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Originally Posted by jtf560
The reason is that NetJets requires at least 2500 hours is that more experience typically, but not always, equates to higher levels of safety and NJA sells itself on safety, safety, safety. It's even in the owner's contracts that the pilots have at least 2500 hours. NetJets and the other fractionals fly into all kinds of airports and have a much more varied kind of flying that the airlines. You are always going to new places and experience allows for a higher level of safety when doing this since you have seen similar places and can anticipate potential problems better if you are more experienced. I flew with very low time pilots when I was a captain at the regionals and I saw first hand the lapses in safety that inexperience brings. I'm not saying somebody with low time can't fly the heck out of the airplane, but they just haven't seen as much to make good decisions as consistantly.
The safety issue along with the owners contract at NJA also requires both pilots to be PIC typed.