Originally Posted by
minigundiplomat
When you say 'the best of Cobham' I hope it's true. There were some outstanding Cobham instructors during the old DHFS contract, but there was more than a sprinkling of idle belters churning out NI 1980's stuff regardless of what the syllabi called for, and generally waiting for Godot.
If you have managed to keep the wheat and jettison the chaff, I'd be marginally supportive (despite the wrong choice of aircraft for 50% of your throughput).
Hopefully the decision on the ex-Cobham guys wasn't made on how they looked on paper......
Cobham boss: Helicopter unit workers' fake degrees had no impact on safety | City A.M.
Hmmm I do not understand the urgent need there to add three letters to one's title in a jiffy ? It is not like the US system where theres a prerequisite (apart from good stick and cyclic / hours in the air )to have Associate and Bachelors degree in tens of dozens of aerospace related degrees nowadays to get to the interview.
The article stated were the pilots were based in Curacao hence flying AW139 for the Coast Guard ; so figured they were informed their CVs pulled up (I had to do that for every employee as part of my internal audit in old helicopter company I worked for, i.a.w EASA changes) and they were non Brits / trained in USA etc etc which had to have a degree??
If for some reason management says "ok peeps, under x,y,z may need a degree, lests send you both or do a distance learning course with one of the many aviation colleges stateside and earm it within 5-6 years"
cheers