Schedule is 5on 3off then 4on 2off. Nobody even comes close to hitting CASA limits.
Pay range is from $50,000 to $80,000 a year + company car with fuel. Since we are all non residents we get our Superannuation back when we leave the country.
I pay $125 a week for a utilities included fully furnished room at a place with a pool. As for food I don't know, it's a whole lot cheaper then what I paid in the NWT. I can get a full meal and a beer at half a dozen places in town for $10. If you chose to shop for your food it's no different then Canada.
No pilot here is asked to do anything other then fly there airplane and put it away at the end of the day. If thats the horror story your friend told you about life as a float driver you and him are gonna have a tough time selling your sob story to any float pilots in Canada.
This is what was quoted on the Canadian site, any part of this real? Is he living in a parallel universe somewhere or have things changed for the better?