ken Mac ( not seen you in 30 years, remember clyde helis
Geoff
Unfortunately it appears its not not about professionalism and competence anymore, its all about P and L and shareholder dividendsfor the operators and most staff care more about their per diem on training than they do about the quality of training!!
Sad as that is , That is what I have seen develop over the last 30 yrs, 30 yrs ago you would go on a training course without any per diem, you would be happy to get the training and opportunity to improve, try getting someone to do that now!!! Even though the modern aircraft is extremely complicated and all training may result in lives saved ( possibly even one's own life)
We are becoming culurally corrupt!!
KM