What is wrong with some of you people?
No-one said the Dr or Nurse should be paid less. Get over it.
They have to be very well qualified and experienced. And, IN THE PAST, so did the pilots.
I didn’t even get an interview until I had well over 4000 hours, and that was all proper IFR charter, not buzzing around the circuit for most of it.
Because of the pilot shortage and the fact that a lot of RFDS pilots have walked into an airline job paying far more money, the RFDS has - rather than look after their existing pilots - simply lowered their requirements.
That is a very bad idea for a lot of reasons. Not least of which is that the nurses are starting to get worried.