Its good to see that this thread has stopped being a s**t throwing competition between ex RAF ex RN crews.
Lads lets face the fact's here the pools of SAR rear crew have rapidly dried up and someone is going to have to bite the bullet and start training crewmen/persons from scratch, given the correct training syllabus.
In every civil SAR organization there is a wealth of experience in both SAR and ab-intio training as soon as the company's involved start smelling the roses on this issue the better, as we will be faced in the not to distant future with a real lack of crews. Not to mention 2012.
In July 2007 CHC will find themselves needing at least 10 crewmen to operate the UK CG contract, thats providing that the Bristows lads decide to stay!!! Will they? No one knows except them..
As some people have already said there is allot of people out there who would love to become a Crewman/person, I have often seen posts on PPrune of people asking who would train them up, so no shortage out there. (don't know why they would want to!!)
And other people have said civil SAR cant train them up BLA BLA BLA, and to be quite frank they are the lads who just have to realize that CHANGE is not always a bad thing
As for the whole RN RAF argument, Roofus i could not agree with you more cheers man..
