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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
He has no idea of the costs of training flight crew and maintenance crew, but would be very useful for checking fluid levels. There are more Bristow's operational bases than there are military (RAF & Navy), helicopter bases in the UK.
I do have a concern that Bristow's air and ground crews are recruited from military retirees - in the main, yes the services will still train helicopter air & ground crews but they would have to transition from Apaches & Cobras to be qualified on S & R helicopters.  |
Why do they have to re-train?
According to him they will all ditch in the North Sea, may as well let it happen without the added expense of retraining surely?
