and not JUST fog! try CB's, Smoke haze, fatigue!!!!!!
Any time flying in Nth Australia during the wet season will improve knowledge and decision-making skills with regards to bad weather. Fog, CB's, smoke haze, fatigue -it's all in the top end.
Now days 200 hour pilots are being thrown into aircraft to get the jobs done up there. Operators have no choice. Look at a job advertised in the last two weeks for an NT operator; TT 200 Hours, time on type (C210): 2 hours. Instrument rating req'd (for the remaining C210's that are well enough maintained to be operated under IFR!)
My point being: There is going to be a sreious lack of experience coming through the ranks of GA and smaller operators like REX. It's no wonder these companies coming up with any cock-n-bull scheme to try to get and keep pilots on their "payroll".
Anyhow, 5 years working at Rex under a bond, on the current award wage, with the J* flag waving at the end of the tunnel. Let's see...!