CHC Globaol are rotating their low time FO's through Helijet in Vancouver to give them some experience on the S76 and then putting them online offshore as FO's.
They were forced to take FO's in Angola, local boys from the fixed wing side and now they work as FO's on the SK76's. Some of the locals have been promoted to Captain but dont have the same pay as expats, I sure wouldn't want their living conditions. They wouldn't mind working in Thailand, Vietnam, Baku or Myanmar.
Same deal in Thailand where Expat Captains were doing 20 days on 10 days off. Local Thai's didn't get paid the same as the expat Captains for the same work done .... Explain that one. I believe that they hired the first Thai female FO who was trained from scratch
Same deal in Yangon and Kanbauk with the local FO they haven't been promoted to Captain status either
CHC have been training a couple of Equatorial Guineans from scratch in Canada and South Africa but haven't seen the flight line in EG. So why not Nigerians who actually know how to speak English !!!!