TC - what you are doing is agreeing with me - the CAA inspectors who are supposed to ensure the AOC is being complied with, don't actually fly with the SAR crews - they only fly with the TREs! So as long as you have competent TREs, the operational crews can be crap and the CAA won't know!
NRDK - this is a rumour network and the co-jo info allegedly comes from the contractor
Since the DfT placed the spec for go-jos so low, how can Bristows be criticised if that;s what they provide?