The deeper you dig, the worse it gets
The other worry is this claim that new NAC contractors are required to fund their own public liability insurance. If that is true, it opens a massive can of worms for new pilots. As a low time pilot, flying knackered out single engine charters into dirt strips with five or six pax on the loads you are going to be paying a fortune to be covered for the minimum twenty or thirty million you will need to make it viable. As well as being a pilot, you are runing your own tax reporting and insurance coverage.
All this for the same rate of pay the girl on the drive through window at Chicken Treat is pulling in.
Then, lets factor in no job security at all. Extra work in the hangar for free, answering phones and doing qoutes for free, no meaningful attachment to the company you work for (and don't underestimate that til you have felt it) and the knowledge that the guy in the hangar up the street is doing it a lot easier as a casual on the award.
HA, what happens if a contractor stacks it due to a freak gust of wind on landing and kills two people in your aircraft and hasn't had his insurance paid up ? Who wears that one?
Gin.