VSF - "All those restrictions you describe would be less of a problem if everyone that was being recruited had years and years of SAR experience behind them. But that's not the case is it? SAR novices are being recruited and of course as time progresses, Bristow will have no option but to recruit more SAR novices as military SAR becomes a distant memory"
I'm sure things have changed since my time as SAR pilot but I don't remember coming out of a box labelled "Very experienced SAR Pilot". We required training too.