Originally Posted by
nigelsomers
..We just feel we have no other choice to get a break in the industry, so we are going ahead with it..
Understand there is an Air Pilots Award and it is the law that if you are working as pilot you must be paid as per the Award as a minimum. No operator is going to fall for the "fly for free" trick. Even if you did fly for free, by mutual consent with the operator, as soon as you left that employment you can take the operator to the FWC and they will be forced to pay you. Everybody knows that. There is no such thing as working for free, so put into action your plan B. Obviously your flight instructors drilled into you during training to always have a plan B.