Gramps Only one operator takes on low hour pilots in the straits these days. It is no co-incidence that these are the pilots serving beers at the two watering holes to the other pilots working for salaries.
These pilots have to work to make ends meet, the other operators pay the award or very near it to their pilots.
Please, don't encourage operators like this to prey on low hour pilots, keep your dignity and work for money, not hours.
Cape York Air now has the usual Cairns minimums, 2,000hrs total, 500 hrs minimum, if they'd stuck to that there may have been one less fatality over a year ago.