When @tgvbhy15 mentioned about a few mill went missing, I just assumed he meant a few Millers Extra Draught went missing off the bar tab. Clearly a minor oversight, just pass the hat around the bar to cover the shortfall. Nothing too libellous about that I would have thought.
As for any connection between the Nigerian nationalisation program and the accident rate. It doesn't worry me too much that Nigerian crews are having accidents in Nigerian registered helicopters in Nigerian Airspace with Nigerian passengers. It's their train set, if it turns into a train wreck occasionally then so be it. Problem belong them.
We don't see any Nigerian recurrent trainees in our simulator, perhaps we should. I've recently acquainted myself with the OGP requirements for helicopter pilots, particularly Appendix A5B. I've been flying offshore for 20+ years and no company I have ever worked for would accept these experience requirements for offshore Captain. A5B has come to me as a complete surprise. 4 years co-pilot only experience for progression to offshore Captain is a joke IMHO.
And 1000 PICUS is also a joke. ICUS should be about giving a guy some initial experience in a particular role, e.g. 10 hours ICUS on a new aircraft type before letting him/her flying PIC, or 10 hours ICUS in-country for the 1st time. 1000 PICUS is just fake PIC time and in my book worth diddly squat SFA. I'm very surprised it can all be used to get an ATPL.
Last edited by gulliBell; 29th Feb 2016 at 01:46.