Gimble stop,
Have you actually won the contract, or are you preparing to tender for one?
Recently when the WA government setup the new Bell 412 helicopter EMS service over there, they tried to go down the track of co-pilots being trained up as winch operators, but it failed dismally.
Who had you in mind to train your co-joes as winch operators? From the WA experience, it's easier to train a crewman to carry out non flying cockpit duties than it is to train a low hour co-pilot to be a winch operator, who would be in the back with no experience and no supervision from anyone, not a good situation when winching a sailor off a yacht that's tossing on the oggin...
