The only reason Bristow got rid of the HF sets was to save $ something they are getting good at and then they are surprised the workforce’s morale is low!
I wonder sometimes which school of man-management the directors went because they are so good at it but that is another story …
To ad to 212man’s explanation the deck frequency-area pairing is not always the case i.e.: in the East Shetland basin the Shell rigs are on the same area frequency (122.25 or 129.95) but this is not the case for the other oil company’s rigs there who have their own freq.
Merry X-mas to everybody out there and lot’s of safe flying in 2001.