Crab,
you must remember that Jigsaw is also a new outfit with only 3 years experience operating in their environment, which is not only the North Sea but also within the confines of the Oil and Gas Industry and the CAA/JAR and soon EASA regs.
What currencies are required for certain skills? Your currency requirements have been borne out of years of experience(and as I remember the currency requirements kept changing to either fit the amount of flying that you could get depending on projected serviceability of the fleet). Jigsaw have to deal with the requirements from their customers and CAA oversight - as far as I am aware there have been no issues regarding this. If there are any issues regarding currencies etc then produce the document that details these so funding can be acquired(no different than doing a Training Needs Analysis in the RAF and then trying to work where the money is going to come from before you can get anything done).
Also as far as I am aware they are not a dedicated SAR asset for the general use of the ARCCK, they are for the use of the BP and other contracting companies.
As they got the winchman to the casualty to stabilize him, why not use the CG helo to actually evacuate him? That gets the casualty better and keeps the Jigsaw asset where it is supposed to be. What's the issue? I remember being tasked to finish a job started by Boulmer, but as they had gone u/s and their casualty have acute appendicitus we went to finish it(when I was flying Yellow). I was also tasked to take an engineer to fix the Boulmer helo(night stopping on a rig). I was initially anti this as far as I was concerned the casualty's needs were paramount and we shouldn't waste time delivering the engineer. I was told to get off my high horse and get on with it and do you know what, I was wrong. we got the casualty and recovered the Boulmer aircraft and everyone was a winner.
When you get some breadth of experience in doing SAR in different theatres and with different operators you might gain some perspective. It's not all about one helicopter-one job it is about using the toys effectively to achieve a number of objectives - some of which you may not be aware of down in your little pit in Devon(the North Sea is a long way away).
Anyway if you want to have your little crusade to make things all light blue then instead of bleating on public forums and upsetting people who may not be able answer back(think about the position the RAF ends up in whenever anything goes wrong in a Yellow helicopter(winchmen injured during training/rescues, tip strikes, crashes during OCU training, poorly thought out airtests, Tail rotor blades fitted the wrong way round by contractors, SAR Flights being declared unfit due to contracturalisation(sp?), new model helicopters refused to be accepted, mods fitted to aircraft without supporting documentation/flight testing, flypasts a building level during parades etc I could go on). when these things happen sometimes you don't have the right of reply and maybe the Jigsaw boys are in the same boat or maybe they don't care about your narrow minded and ill informed drivel.
PM me if you want to chat further, as I have no intention of furthering this thread as it serves no purpose - this a rumour network, if you want to continue please got to UPSlN.com (Unprofessional Pilots Slagging Network) to carry on.
I am not in Jigsaw by the way, but I can read the rubbish on these forums. I have to say I am somewhat disappointed and disillusioned with the rubbish coming from a SAR QHI that I used to hold in high regard when I was a Yellow Hatter.
Saint Evil
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