Bristow Intl. Division

[autorotor]

Anyone working for Bristow Intl.Division (Mauretania, Turkmenistan, Kaszachtan, etc..). Would appreciate any feedback on working conditions, safety culture, maintenance, etc.
Thanks guys!

[rotorsailor2]

I've done 30 years with Bristow. Over 4 years in Kazakhstan. What exactly are your qualifications, and what are you looking for?

[UWOT]

AUTOROTOR

You may wish to check this Thread out before you consider MAURITANIA

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=244359 :=

You were warned !!!!!!!

[Staticdroop]

Have heard nothing but bad news from those who have worked for the international division. Poor pay(supposedly tax free but you really have to go some to retain that status) appaling conditions as oil and gas are never found near civilisation, dreadful management, not very good employment conditions, very american in their hire and fire creating a very unsafe regime.

[SirVivr]

Have heard nothing but bad news from those who have worked for the international division. Poor pay(supposedly tax free but you really have to go some to retain that status) appaling conditions as oil and gas are never found near civilisation, dreadful management, not very good employment conditions, very american in their hire and fire creating a very unsafe regime.

Could you expound upon the the very American?

Chas A

[rjsquirrel]

"very american" policies mean that if you are a crappy pilot you will be tossed out on your tush, unlike in the policies in the "Mother Country", where the incompetant are given a raise and made into safety officers or managers. :ugh:

[SASless]

Hire and Fire American attitude??????????????

Perhaps you might ask the 52 pilots that got sacked from the North Sea and also note that 12 filed legal actions against Bristow and won.

Perhaps one might go clear back to 1977 and ask about the British pilot who crashed an Alouette III on a base check....doing a hovering autorotation and passed the checkride without having to re-do the maneuver.

Ask Mansewer Tyre Burst how many pilots he ran off for Bristow before the Yanks bought BHL? (And still is running them off....)

There is a dinosaur with the rank of Captain Major that has run a few off as well.....and still does.

This "Hire and Fire" syndrome comes from a long way back Bubba....why do you think PeeWee takes those recruiting trips to far off lands seeking other world pilots?

[Staticdroop]

Back in you boxes gents.
Just what i've been told and experienced. It's not an insult just a generalisation on the corporate culture.

[UWOT]

Quote: Posted by SASLESS

ASK MAN SEWER TYREBURST HOW MANY PILOTS HE RAN OFF FOR BRISTOW

Lets not forget the Engineers please

Quote: Posted by RJSQUIRREL

"VERY AMERICAN" POLICIES MEAN THAT IF YOU ARE A CRAPPY PILOT YOU ARE TOSSED OUT ON YOUR TUSH, UNLIKE IN THE"MOTHER COUNTRY", WHERE THE INCOMPETANT ARE GIVEN A RAISE AND MADE INTO SAFETY OFFICERS OR MANAGERS.

RJ little confused here, My understanding of Bristow Int / Mansewer Tyreburst Policy is that if you are a Competant Pilot you are tossed out but if you are Incompetant then you get made Safety Officer or made Chief Pilot. :cool:

[imuney]

Does anyone know in which countries Bristow's international business unit is currently operating? Any new contracts coming up?

Thanks!

[tistisnot]

Tis, tis not.

I hope to be competent, you appear to be incompetant .... well you lot started it ..... (in)adequate for the task.

And yes, it damned well does detract from your argument. How can we take your tit for tat snipes seriously?

[Snarlie]

You can always rely on SASless to tell half the story, the half that suits his purposes. The 52 pilots whose employment was terminated in 1977 after settlement of the strike action in support of the lovely Peter Royston were guilty of failing to fulfill their contracts by not showing up for work. The legal action I think he is referring to was nothing to do with being sacked but rather an attempt to recover National Insurance payments which should have been paid by the company whilst those pilots were working overseas prior to working in the North Sea.

Bristow always had a more than fair attitude to employment, I can name several pilots who should have been given their marching orders but who survived to cause nausea for others for many a long day.

There are still people around who remember vividly the Strike of `77 so go carefully with the artistic licence SASless!

[SASless]

Sorry Snarlie....I am not referring to that bunch at all....not one of them.

I do refer to another group that got the axe during a "slimming" exercise that took place in the 1990's.

The suits were for "Unjust Dismissal" amongst other issues. The court reward would have been much higher for the guys if the current law applied rather than an earlier law. Got the info from one of the twelve who filed and won. Read the court papers he had in his possession.

This was the case where a a very well liked long tenured Training Captain who had found himself at the high end of the greasy pole of management went into court and carried the company water and was seen by the Judge to have not much credibility. The company repaid him by a posting to a very northern airfield at the far reach of the realm as a revenue producer.

I tell the whole account Snarlie....and know of what I speak. The source of my info would gladly add to this account but unfortunately he is no longer with us.

[TomBola]

Snarlie,

I think I'd prefer to say that SASless always tells the whole story, but his slant on it reflects his personal perspective and background, as is the case with the vast majority of people.

You appear to have been on the North Sea in the 1980s, so you may remember the TV series, 'A Bit of a Do' with David Jason. It was written by David Nobbs, creator of Reggie Perrin. Over an evolving series it looks at similar themes from the different perspectives of its characters. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet tetralogy from an earlier era (1957-1960) illustrates this even more clearly and it seems you and SASless may be looking at the same subject from a different point of view, the same as Durrell did when he continued a tradition that stretches from Friedrich Nietzsche's perspectivism to the deconstructionist's differance. Thus you and SAS may offer the same sequence of events to us through different points of view, but your individual perspectives may have changed over time or due to your differing cultural backgrounds. Sorry-oh, I'll leave anything deeper or more profound to Graculus :O