EESDL, You are 100% spot on with that post. There is a qualified helicopter pilot shortage across the industry, onshore and offshore. Offshore, shall we carry on being ever flexible, giving more, while we work for the companies with obscene profits laughing all the way to the bank? It's about time the operators grew a set and instead of racing to the bottom, start heading up the other way! Of course, this will require less weak knee'd pilots to take a stand, and give the management someone to blame for having to increase our rates? Even if it is just no more availability of overtime. Or, shall we wait until the next oil price crash and think we should have grown a pair way before now?
I notice in the USA pay increasing rapidly and large sign on bonuses? We are lagging far behind!
B.