How much does your airline pay its' fleet flight safety officers and how much work are they contracted for in this role?

I am my company's Flight Safety Manager, the extra pay is'nt worth it but the job itself is fascinating. I get around £ 5 000 pa as a supplement, and I do the job on top of my normal line flying. I have learned more about flight safety SMS etc in the 5 years I have held this role than in the 9 years before when I was the Chief Pilot for a similar operation. And sometimes I get to see positive benefits, and then the poor extra pay is worth it.

SND

Thank you for the info.What SMS do you use?

We use our own; created around CAA/EASA requirements. When we went shopping for one none really fitted the type of aviation we are involved in ie a mix of mid-large size biz jets and medium sized VIP helicopters. The quality manager and myself took the best bits of what we saw and added some new areas to deal with company specific roles, part of that was a web based "open reporting forum" where any employee can comment or recommend (this has become in many ways an extension to crew room chat and rumour, but the facts tend to be better because anyone commiting themselves to it tends to have their information right as they see it from the start). The forum became a part of the SMS audit system and has been a remarkably useful tool.

The biggest problem we had with SMS was a lack of understanding from other providers about how much of an SMS is already legislated for and how we needed to cover many different areas. Also we needed the system to evolve at easier and faster rate than an off the shelf version could, as it is our own then changes (subject to CAA approval) can be made very quickly and the information disseminated via internal e-mail and the forum as well as the printed word.