Originally Posted by
BigMike
Who is accepting 1200 hr pilots?
If you would like to work up there, have the common sense not to apply unless you have the relevant experience... it is no place for the inexperienced.
If do meet the requirements, do not accept less than equal tours, or the basic going rate. You are shafting everyone if you accept less, and your reputation in the industry will be damaged if you do.
True. But for guys with low experience who are offered a twin endorsement and twin time, some will take it under whatever conditions are offered to them and they don't care what anybody else thinks of it. Inexperienced pilots can survive PNG if they are smart and allowed to trust their instincts, and the operator closely supervises their work. I know of at least 3 pilots with many thousands of hours of experience who had a fatal prang on their first tour of PNG (and all of them were operating in weather they shouldn't have been operating in). And of course, there are quite a few very PNG exerienced pilots who had fatal prangs in PNG.