Max Ng
I had the pleasure of flying on Maui a few years ago, most of the time the weather was ok but climbing over Mt Haliakela (don't know if the spelling is correct but it's a dormant volcano with an elavation of 10,000)
one could experience some pretty stiff winds/downdrafts. Most demanding part about the job was making sure the pax whent away happy and got to see all the waterfalls, canyons etc. as the wx often dictated our route. Also, if you received complaints due to flying too close to someones home you wouldn't last that long in the job. The industry is big, don't recall the actaul hours flown but on Maui there were five operators at the time, all in the air every daylight hour/every day. The machine I flew hardly ever shutdown, we hot re-fuelled and did a `hot' change of drivers at lunchtime I must admit if I ever whent back there as a tourist, i would gladly pay to do a 45 flight around the island, the sceanery is stunning, real `Jurrasic Park' stiff