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you're right it surfaces often from the same author usually without qualification.
numbers have increased for sure and a quick tally of bent units behind the hangers will reveal that there are not that many extra flying around, but a quick run down of the diff cats might be as follows;
Mustering, where before there was bulk hours during the disease eradication programs, individual pilots now do not do much more than half per year than before. lots of those guys at about 1500 hours are going O/S, canada esp.
EMS, well they are a different breed and being talked about in a diff thread, they destroy 'em as quick as they come in.
Off shore is the one to watch, now that the Timor boundary dispute has been settled there'll be a bit there and sunrise field which is huge hasn't even started yet.
On shore min-ex is another to watch as it is increasing reasonably rapidly due mainly to the fact that finally there are some movements with native title agreements - and lucrative markets for metals.
Fires, well ho-hum it will be interesting to see if the greenies are ever controlled so as preventative burn offs can occur, that will reduce this activity quite some.
Military are faily static except for the new attack machines
Cops and robbers , they are shooting each other or the bloody rabbits or the crims in melbourne or something but hell lead is flyin' everwhere down there!
Private stuff is increasing, hey it's a lucky country every one has loot to burn, Frank is the big winner there.
Tourism also is slowly climbing, and transitioning to turbines.
Just north, new guinea seems to be on another riser
I might have missed abit but that's what I see