Radar, if you get your first job in Darwin consider yourself pretty lucky. In Darwin there is a lot of 1. beer, 2. good mates and you guessed it - 3. backpackers
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If you can't get a job in Darwin widen that seach until you gradually exclude ALL three of the above. At the end of the search will be a 172 or if you are lucky a 182 which you will fly for between 0 and 8 hrs per week. 6-12 months later you will have those 350-400 hrs in your logbook. The rest is obvious..1 then, 2, then lots of 3
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Good luck.