hi there,
i dont really understand the negative tone about the north sea companies based on my own experience.
I paid for my own PPL/CPL and Instructor rating about £40k under the old national system by the time I had got NVQ relief and also a R44/b206 rating as well.
and i messed around instructing with some commercial for 2/3 years and had to pay for everything myself, all renewals medicals etc. and worked at least 6 days a week had no holidays, really struggled with the pay no more than £20k a year for enormous effort.
then I got took on by Scotia, they paid for my AS355 rating, my AS3332L rating and my IR(H) and they pick up the tab for everything and pay me almost twice as much as I was getting before.
I get to fly twins everyday, only work 192 days a year, get to do challeging deck landings and get to practice my ILS's ever other day or so. often finish by lunchtime and get a good social life as well as going home every night, whats not to like!
I dont care if I am naive, they have helped my career a lot, and if they lose me through redundancy, i will go back onshore with a massively better CV than when I joined them.
to all you guys who are trying to get in good luck hope you make it, thinks will all change around and they will recruit again at some point.
to the moderator. what do you think of that ?, do you think my post is to upbeat for this forum or what?