Don't know about Oz but in NZ our CAA is working as we speak (I use the term 'working' loosely) on imposing flight experience minimums for part 135 operators. They are prescribing minima for everything from single engine scenic to single pilot IFR being the most restrictive. Now, a few have said "hooray, the ball will soon be in our court" but having looked over the draft rule, I realise that my boss has never hired anyone with less than the prescribed hours and still has a drawer overflowing with CVs and new ones arriving daily from pilots whose flight time exceeds the proposed minimums. He is getting nervous though. Perhaps he's seen a future when pilots don't come to him on their hands and knees and beg to work for peanuts. The worst nightmare of a GA operator?
