A lot will depend on your flying experience, a few hundred hours = LOCAL COS. Thousands of hours may equal EXPAT COS. If you apply from Hong Kong they will probably offer you LOCAL conditions and see if you take it, which has been done before, but the guy said get stuffed. If you can manage to apply from overseas they will probably offer you EXPAT conditions. They are a sneaky lot and if they can save a buck they will. LOCAL conditions are not worth it.