The requirements of some GA jobs are just ridiculous. But of course the answer isn't to train someone, pay for their type rating or negotiate with insurers on lower minimums. It's always look overseas.

Just looking at AFAP and you compare the jobs, some of these people are absolutely dreaming if they expect someone to scroll past a full time jet job with lower minimums than the single engine part time job in the middle of nowhere.

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Maybe Australian exceptionalism will facilitate a continued race to the bottom. As all Australians know Straya is different!

You'll actually find that the main reasons for the higher minimums are non-negotiable contract requirements for the people chartering the aircraft. Many operators are more than willing to put someone on a new type with far less hours than required by contracts, but when they can't actually service the contracts, it's pointless.

Neither a FIR or Cert IV in T&A makes you a good instructor. The only good instructors I ever had were the ones who wanted to instruct, for the pleasure of training and teaching new pilots the right skills.

The instructors who got their FIR to build hours from a bare CPL and avoid having to do some real work in NT/WA GA were unfortunately far too easy to pick and nowhere near as easy to avoid. They were also predominately of a much lower standard, both as instructors and pilots.

Maybe having to do a Cert IV will at least punch into their heads that they need to concentrate on training not just hours in the book.

patty, in the instance cited, the employers training is beyond reproach, and as an outsider I'm staggered at the commitment in that area, equal to any airline.