HC
in the longer term it would make it very difficult to recruit from oil and gas into SAR once the eflux of mil sar was depleted.
Why would you have to recruit from oil and gas? Once the SAR contract is up and running I presume that wastage would be low as, unlike the military who tend to spend 3yrs in one location before moving on either by promotion, rerole or retirement, pilots would stay in SAR for some time.
The wastage caused by retirement would then be managed by promoting co-pilots to captain and then recruiting new co-pilots who would be put through the Bristow equivalent of SARTU before being allocated to a base. There would be no need to recruit from oil and gas so salaries can remain lower than oil and gas and more profit can be taken by head office
HF
Al-bert - I think he means pomme frites - those things from the bratty wagon we used to smother in mayo.
