Woolf, you still don't get it do you. If the rest of the industry hadn't bust a gut to cut costs, you wouldn't have half the rigs to fly to - how many pilots would you need then?
I don't dispute that most of pilots and engineers do a good job with the resources available - I'm sure you do. What we object to is the helico managers who, very occasionally nowadays, come to the rigs and blame the oil companies for all the troubles. It is the oil companies who are trying to squeeze the economics of our fields to extend their lives (yes, and make money for their investors which probably includes your pension scheme).
If all your intellegence can do is tell your customers to F*** OFF, it is not suprising we want an alternative.
Look guys, we should not be slagging each other from from the other side of the fence. We should be working together to give us all as big a chance of continued employement until our respective retiral date, and if it takes a bit of pain, so be it.
Last edited by chopperpunter; 6th December 2002 at 10:16.