The ignorance shown in this thread astounding. It certainly puts the Hinterland HOFO in the unenviable position of having to support his ill-advised GM [CAVOK92 + burners] who’s gone rouge on a pilot rumour network.
Some advice: you are attempting to push your way into the Torres Strait; a high skill, high intensity environment with several very experienced operators who, despite the local challenges, manage to keep the good people of the TS safe on a daily basis.
Rather than coming on here and telling us all we have no idea what we’re doing, perhaps a good place to start would be:
- take a closer look at the Cessna Caravan POH and Part 135 to realise the legal risk you actually have chosen to adopt,
- talk to some people who know something about short runways,
- get some organic, ticket-based runs on the board, and;
- Stop inventing rumours, avoid the temptation of congratulating yourself from your own account and adopt some humility.
At the end of the day this “opposition” you speak of may well be the people you’ll be thanking later for spotting you in the ocean.