A of A, $2400 a fortnight would be bloody great - if I were earning it. However by definition, casual work means that I might do 38 hours one week, and only 8 hours the next. The point is: It's only when you find yourself out of the aviation loop that you realise how much it means to be in it. Hell, even if I were bringing home the dollars you suggest, it's still less than a LCC pilot salary (no matter what you say) - and it's ****ty work. This is why I have absolutely no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who insists on dragging down the hard-working professional pilots who are just trying to do their job to the best of their ability - irrespective of what they get paid. And they don't get paid too bad at all from where I stand.