MM,
Hope you get over your problems soon - hope it's not your health?
Out in Nigeria all is still not well. Bristow have sent out their training boss from OLOG in USA. Who can say what for as they don't have any pilots to train, they don't even have enough to fly all their helicopters every day! Rumors that another 2 or 3 have just jumped, or about to jump to CHC. Paul Weddick is making one of his rare appearances, but he's totally out of touch with what's needed to get enough people and is starting to sound like a black sardine
. The pilots flying EC155 for Shell, have a good life, but those flying S76 for Shell seem to just get screwed to compensate for that. When will the company in USA realise the treasure they have in their deputy MD in Lagos and harness his talents?
CHC management in Nigeria and Canada still seem paralyzed and many pilots in PHC are not happy with the food provided by an outside caterer and the lack of any progress on the building of their new staff house or getting new cars for recreation. Meanwhile, as stated before, their managers drive around in new SUVs to and from their luxury houses on an estate with every facility on site. They are trying to get the rules changed to get the pilots to work 7/7 which is also causing great hostility. All of these things should mean that the GHPA will have the membership it needs for its creation as a legal entity which the company will then have to negotiate with. Truly they will have woken the sleeping tiger.
The good news is that MEND have not kidnapped any expatriates lately. The bad news is that they have overrun Agip's Ogbainbiri flow station and are holding 16 indigenes and 8 military men, who were dispossessed of their weapons, are being held hostage.