Red sikorsky dude...let's see them prove it in court! To the others, thank you very much for your opinions so far. I do feel that many of you are unfortunately more interested in budgets and aircraft than people and quality of life. This does not surprise me, I am sorry to say. The point of this thread was that I feel it is a sorry state of affairs when 'we' start giving away such postings...or indeed any postings. We will find out soon what our new aircraft will be, and soon our engineers will get posted. The rest of the station will take up the extra burden on all of the duty rosters. Our guys will tell their colleagues at their new stations how 'good 84 was - but don't bother to put it down...we've given it to the civvies'. And nothing that I have seen written in this thread can convince me that this is a sensible decision.