Gidday,

Not sure if you did a search but I answered a similar type question a while back. I'm an F/O on the 737 with Qantas. I was US military for about 8 years then RAAF. There are a handful of americans in QF. A large # joined during the pilot's dispute of 1989 but most of them are gone now. Those of us here now have gone down a similar route to the one being described to you above. All the info these guys have posted is accurate. I can confirm that, if you jump through those hoops, you can get a job down here. I'll just caution you that this part of the world is a net supplier of pilots to the rest of the world. That means there are heaps of pilots here chasing a limited number of jobs. It can be done, obviously, but it's not easy. Best of luck.

TDK