Just another thought.....
You said you work with computers?
There is a skills shortage in IT thats getting worse with falling intakes into IT studies. I have no idea what your quals are IT wise but maybe upgrade them and do something else in IT?
Rates of pay are starting to rise again and there are credible comentators calling a real shortage in the next two / three years.
Make a quid doing that and fly on the weekends for fun
An aircond office sorting out a router that wont forward packets beats flogging about in a clapped out, undermainatined, overloaded 206 into some poxy remote NT strip in "Territory VMC" during the wet season...... Or am I just getting old
PS Just noticed the date on the first post....... Hell hes probably in QAN by now