Originally Posted by
gulliBell
There are plenty of qualified and experienced local pilots that get ticks in all the boxes. Operators employ foreign pilots over qualified local pilots for reasons known only to them.
SAR S92 pilots? Surely still employed by Bristow if they're running another SAR S92, no? Glass cockpit SAR pilots then, no? What baffles me here is not the local or not connection, it's the fact that experienced training options were offered but the local collective insisted it wasn't required when it clearly is. Just the fact that this option had foreign elements seemed to be part of the issue.