Shows how highly skilled those aviators in WA are. How do they manage to successfully (mostly) separate each other in those dangerous CTAFs that are dotted around the Pilbara.
The sarcasm is noted but whenever I've done that type of flying it's usually only been two sectors, out and back to Perth, coming off rest and feeling reasonably refreshed before commencing those flights.
I’m sure it’s still the same now, but a few years ago it wasn’t unusual in the Pilbara on a Tuesday morning to have double digit numbers of 737/A320/Fokkers lobbing in and out of half a dozen airfields all within 50NM of each other, all uncontrolled. Throw in a few passing through charter or survey lighties, and it becomes a very busy and risky area to operate in.
And that's a major difference. These guys were flying into a CTAF at
night, possibly their 4th sector at the end of a long day. Fatigue would most likely be a contributing factor.