does the Conquest use photo-electric detectors
No, has a pair of wire loops.
CASA, the politicians, the bureaucracy, and sadly too much of the aviation community, is willfully blind to the real situation
The ATSB get a miss there by name, but guess come under the bureaucracy tag. Putting in a report to them is a luck of the draw as to whether they might be interested. You would think an engine failure departing an oil rig at the most critical point in the profile would raise their interest. Not a bit of it, didn't contact either of the crew for follow up, nor does the event appear in their publicly available records.
Then we have Norfolk, less said the better.
No pilot is allowed to get in the way of revenue
Yes you can if you have balls, in this particular case the individual has no balls, if you get my drift. Was customary for operations to try and overload flights, some pilots bent to their will thinking as your post hints, but a pilot with no balls used to tell them where to go, also stood their ground on duty time when flying singles and had to front the owner, don't you want to fly twins was the question put. Earned an enviable reputation with the owners as a result. Some of the pressure is self inflicted, though there are company's who will push and push of course.