Originally Posted by
212man
Now I’m intrigued. I hired two BHL senior S92 captains at the top of the scale, one a TRE and one a Chief Pilot, with Scatsta allowance, on about 127k GBP gross, and they got at least that net. When I left in 2013 we were offering 220K BND net to 139 pilots (plus free housing and utilities etc)t. Where were you working when you applied?
212, it was well after you left. I was working in Scandinavia and a colleague had recently left BSP as his pay was being massively cut. What was being offered to those who took up the position in 2015 was known to be considerably less than what you were able to offer those ex Bristow people from what I was told afterwards.
Jeepys, the days of the wet and windy rocks being where you needed to go for that are gone as the current SAR operator have done nothing but erode the terms and conditions previously awarded by others. But the places I refer to are all onshore VIP with predictable rosters. In one case 14/14 and only one training captain amongst the fleet. There is even an AW109 operation non AOC with a similarly rewarding salary.