Yeah, all that overwater flying is ******* hard eh? ALT captured, HDG captured, Direct to - enter. ZZZZZzzzzzz VNAV decent in 100 nms.
Welcome to the rest of your life. 2 weeks Barrow return, Skippers, Perth, 2weeks of Barrow return, Skippers, Perth, 2 weeks...
Can I live on the east coast please? NO
******* boring and don't try to convince us otherwise. Bloody offshore drivers have no idea even what a mountain or wire looks like and living to figure out what to do with 130K (thought it was 95K?) is pathetic. Don't try and convince us what you do is hard and all those other adjectives, we know; a lot of us have been there and done that and NO we are not impressed with your salary. Especially when you had to be a copilot for 5yrs and most of the Bristow pilots have never done anything else with their life apart from Bristows. If I had a buck for every cojoe who wandered up to the machine "wow! you're going looking for crocodiles!!"
Sell out if you want or live the dream. If you really are living your dream then good for you. I doubt they are considering the defensive nature of the comments.