After 72 hours of sorting out my x-country time, I can proudly say that I have sent my application to Parc, which they have succesfully accepted and forwarded to AJX today.
I will post the next event, shoud there be one, that is...
Many Thanks to all the contributors to this post, including the uppers, the downers, the ones who left this gig, the ones who stayed, the ones who keep saying they're gonna leave but never actually do (we have hundreds of those in RYR, including myself), and in summary, the good fellow contractors out there.
PS: Just one more quick thing that is not very clear to me by reading this entire thread: Is there any training involved before actually flying the line?