Hmm. Those dissing meat bombing I don't think have spent any time thinking about the workload and conditions. You're running 10-15 cycles daily, MTOW every time, minimum fuel, effeciency all the way (you get a MTOW 182 to 12,000' as fast as you can and I'll bet I can show you a jump trucker that will get there faster), and engine management on the way down critical (show me a new jump pilot and I'll show you a 182/206 that needs a new front right cylinder).
I fly two commercial ops (no, don't point out that it's not comercial - I get paid). One is flying aerobatics in a warbird, the other is meat bombing. both are high workload, intense, and saftey critical. The jump trucking is the harder of the two.
FYI Commando's in YTND are trying to cut back on the number of pilots - there's just too many once a qtr flyers at the moment...
Flog.