The security clearances that required to go ANYWHERE near the Customs contract stuff up in the Strait take months to come through, if any more 412 Captains leave then I think AH will be in the canoe without paddle.
The head office management only have themselves to blame as the only reason that the operation ran as well as it did was that the crew on site were a good hard working professional bunch.
If they think that they can just slide a new bum onto the Captains side in the 412 from elsewhere in the company then they are dangerously deluding themselves! Being a great longranger driver with many thousands of hours does not readily translate to being a competant Captain of an IFR "systems" aircraft without the requisite time, training and experience being invested into said pilot by the company. The Customs contract up in the Strait is worth a heap of dollars so I hope it doesn't end up in someone having a monumental prang just because they got stuffed into a seat they were not quite ready for?
Good luck to those brave enough to move on. In this case the grass may well be greener on the other side of the fence!
