NT Wet Season
Reference HA locked topic and the questions relating to "whats the big deal with the wet season".
I don't think it is the flying in cloud/weather that is of concern, at least it wasn't for me, it was the local knowledge.
Most of the runways are dirt/grave/not sealed.
Alot of the above have nothing or little in the way of reporting procedures and even if they do it can change at short notice. TS etc
There are ****** all navaids. DN, TN, TNK, AS, AYE, VRD, MHU, GTE, GV, MGD,BRL,HOO maybe one or two more thats just from memory are the only ones in the territory.
As is normal Aus/world wide you are required to carry max payload = min fuel.
Put all this together and someone who has local wet season knowledge who is sent to a remote runway that has recently been subject to a torrential wet season downpoor is most likely to know the condition of the said runway and if it is unlikely to be serviceable then a suitable alternate close by. Diverting around TS most of the way without the benifit of the navaids that are so frequent down south. Makes sense to me to hire someone who's seen it all before!