Well said SAS, the point is the Bristow pilots in Nigeria (and World Wide for that matter) were real pilots and not system managers and could fly.
I was with Bristow for 34 years all over the world and until the arrival of OLOG was with the best company in the world. When we lost a Wessex and could not establish the reason we grounded the type although the Queen continued to fly in them for years afterwards so lets not hear anymore guff about standards.
In my time with the company I could count on one hand the pilots I was concerned about flying with in ANY conditions, from Greenland to Malaysia and Borneo and many countries in between including Zagross in Iran and Mogadishu during the UN fiasco. I shudder to think how some of the current crop would cope!! (I never worried about flying with you!)