Worth a punt?
Is now the time to bang a CV into Bristows for SAR??
I get the in-post civvy engineers going for the jobs but don't you think they will need a lot more? Two shifts, possible night coverage, hoildays, sick and all those good things. 8 LAE's through the whole UK thats mighty thin on the ground even for a line station and we all know the helicopters don't wait to go U/S until they get back to a base maint org. Unless you have a good MEL the wheels will come off. You still need a type rated guy to sign the defect out of the tech log.
I do agree that SAR(H) will have attractions to us LAE's and it will be interesting to see how Bristows do this. If it does end up split between Bristows and Bond lets say with the S92 and the AW189 thats a lot of pegs to put in the right holes.