Thanks for the replies. Something for me to think about!
To answer a couple of points brought up:
*Taking jobs aways from local pilots-I'm in the same situation surely, when pilots from europe (not to mention Australia and NZ) come to UK. Not complaining, good luck to them, but it seems the same to me.
*If it palls after a couple of tours (how do you difine a 'tour' by the way) well nothing is forever, may be I'll move on. But it is someting I dreamt of doing when I first thought of flying for a living then 'grew out of'. Now, approaching thirty and still single with no morgage etc, I'm thinking, why not, it's now or never!
One last thing, I understand that (in Botswana anyway) the 'flying season' gets going around April. Does this make November (ie well ahead of time) a good time to introduce myself or would I be better waiting until, say, January?
Blue skies,
J.C.