The civil aviation of T&T need to shoulder some of the blame for the mass exodus of local pilots and engineers to foreign shores when they bowed to pressures from the local Heli operators to moved away from UK CAA CAP 371 FDP`s to FAA Standard or (Non Standards).
The T&T CAA are toothless buldogs when it comes to enforcing proper FDP regs.
As soon the new FDP`s became law, crew rosters and ops manuals changed with longer duty hrs and reduced time off and more flying, again the CAA did nothing
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When are they going to figure out we don`t want to go abroad but are forced to move on, one being money but the main reason is pilot fatigue. Early departures/late landings with 12 - 14 hr duty and minimum days off just don`t cut it anymore unless you work equal time off (not night stby being called part of a day off). We rather move on than risk having an incident or accident acredited to your name.
Local pilots and Eng are experienced and professionals who can hold their end any where in the world. We will continue to depart T&T in droves since the local heli operators only concern with making the mighty $ while their employees are treated like
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You could pay locals same salary as expats but they will always move on since time-off and quality of life take precedent in the end unless you`re wok jumbies like ddg and bs.
May be the operators should have a read Roger Green`s book on Human Factors for Pilots and realised that money is not everything.
I for one would love return to T&T..... if there were ever an equal time-off roster. Untill such time I will continue to remain a happy and well off expat exploring the Asian and African continents and loving every minute.
