Why should I feel hard done by? It's not like I've failed selection; I have made a choice to go elsewhere. I do have friends who are still stuck in the system though so do maintain a level of interest.
Hence a more selective approach and some useful evaluation time?
So is the oil and gas time part of the selection process? That's not what I have heard. I was under the impression that once you had a fixed number of hours glass cockpit that you go to the SAR Flight. It didn't read as if it was an assessment tool.
Years of developing a SAR, multi crew experience portfolio is your asset to the company, not 10,000 hours of flying to a rig
Which is precisely my point. So why use experienced SAR pilots to fly to a rig?