And that's without the increase in training required for the NVG stuff that isn't completed at the moment.
50 hours per month amongst 5 crews = 1.6 hours a day/night. Assume 10 of those 50 hours is IF for 10 pilots, that leaves 40 per month or 1.3 hours per day for decks, wets, sits, PLBs, NVG, mountains, radar letdowns, FCS procedures, hi-lines, RIB transfers, MRT exs, lifeboat exs, windfarm exs etc etc etc.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the problem here. And, since we are clearly at the bottom end of the price scale, there won't be any luxuries in the training package.
It smacks of something that has been cut to the bone by beancounters and those that have no understanding of the real demands of SARops.