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Bend alot
A mix of could not get a job elsewhere or chasing quick hours.
Mostly.
They knew they got a better $ for a high risk.
When you know your at risk you make different decisions. There you get a ramp check (lol) no real drama - here forget your ASIC or 20 kg of extra fuel (for a diversion) and get caught your in BIG SHyT.
One country you could make things work, the other they would rather you die keeping legal.
Special VFR or even many VFR flight plans are just to be "legal".
Hit the nail on the head.
Rules won’t save anyone from death or anything less serious. Things that will is raw hardcore single pilot experience in the worst environment in the world to fly, let alone live for any long period of time.
PNG provided that for me and I can attest that I’ve got more than 9 lives! If anyone has had a windscreen full of rain forest whilst on approach very close to the ground in marginal weather conditions and survived, they will know what I mean.