I've been very reluctant to post here as speculation is not always healthy and we must wait for the full AAIB report but.........
I'm told that Scotia in UK don't send their pilots to Helisim for annual recurrent training. Is this true? If so, it's an unforgiveable error on their part, when a fully certified Cat D simulator is available at Helisim to practice many failures which it is not possible to do on the aircraft.
Unfortunatly this is correct and I really hope this changes. In Aberdeen alll the L pilots go to the Sim in Norway every 6 months yet only a small handful of the L2 pilots go to the sim annually. The UK S76 and Dauphin crews do not go to the sim. The S92 crews do use the sim at the moment. A number of command courses have been run over the last 18 months and the L crews had the benefit of a week in the sim yet the L2 crews did not. I do not know how this can be justified.
I think this is dreadful and hopefully changes soon.