13speed
Overpitched
One reason, and a big one at that, for hours/experience increases, I believe, can be squarely blamed on Aviation Auditors.
From my personal experience in the oil and mining helicopter game in the 1990's each auditor (self proclamed experts- must have been, it was printed on their business cards!) seemed he had to prove he was safer than the last one. The only way they could do that was to be more restrictive than their opposition.
These gentlemen also seemed to stop training and upgrading of copilots to command spots for the same reasons.
I was lucky that I was already qualified for all contracts but it made my blood boil to see many careers stoped in their tracks and excellent pilots removed to other jobs because they suddenly didn't have enough hours to do the flying that they had been doing for months.
Don't get me Wrong, I have nothing against safety or properly qualified auditing but it was a ridiculous situation that I think set the industry back quite a bit
Last edited by 13speed; 16th Feb 2006 at 10:46.