fair points snake, I cannot disagree with you at all.
On first review of this post, it did look, and perhaps incorrectly so that RFDS requires "god" like experience to join.
Hard yards agreed, thats why I'm working on the missus and family to move to 51 Deg North and 0 deg west, not enough options here to get the experience and also keep kids jumpy boingy healthy and pay the great aussie 75 times your income mortgage
uncertainty = risk, either financial (cost), physical (oops that rock), compliance (government) , local (government again)., safety (oh dear government again)
Having lived in SA a while back , I can tell you I have never seen the like of small minded beaurocratic idiots anywhere in the world, and I am not kidding, I see no reason to believe that RFDS operations based in Port Agutta or ad-dull would be exempt from the "Ad-dull-ade" syndrome of nit-piking and terminal criticism death...
besides JAA won't hurt a bit.