From my experience:
you leave flying school. Safety safety safety then you start working with muppet skydivers who from my experience:
*Dollars over safety
*poor maintenance.
*’You a pussy?’ Attitude
*Lots of drug use, even saw in flight. Not regulated…CASA don’t care. They are passengers.
*I had a fire skydiving, got scolded by owner for using the BCF
*Pilot chute disintegrated on repack
*Expected to IMC in VFR… when I challenged tandem master he said ‘I don’t give a fk, I have a parachute to get down’
*Cloud manual approval should be a massive red flag
If you’re gonna do it, be safe, don’t be afraid to tell any sky monkeys to ‘get fkd’. The worst job you can find. Thank god there was a pilot shortage when I did it.
UMV used to be owned by the absolute worst excrement in Australian aviation….