All interesting, thanks. I didn't mention I was an ATPL(H) pilot with twin turbine time mostly b/c I didn't think it was too relevant to the discussion and also b/c, whatever requirements are needed, I'd make it happen.
CYHeli, my health's fine for Class 1 Medicals, just not good enough for Army.
170, you talk about frustration/guilt ratios of 100:1. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Sad that even aid is distributed according to the rule of best media exposure. It's just after years of flying people around rigs and watching poor countries get poorer while me and the multi-nationals gets richer, I was trying to figure out some way to give something back...it's not that I think aviation is necessarily the way to do it, it's just that all I know how to do is turn a blade. My current frustration ratio is 100:0, so, all things being equal, I'd still be having a win...
Am I a Christian? Yep. No worries there. But MAF are notorious in PNG for shoddy maintenance, gross mismanagement and flying over-loaded (don't know about their other areas of operation). So how can it be that MAF get better results? Can you expand on that a bit?
Anyhow, while the church thing might be the way to go, I can't see the spouse sharing my sense of adventure about permanently relocating to jungleville. It'd have to be a touring position, I guess.
Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to give a bit of a picture of what's out there. I'm off to look up those links you provided.
Cheers.