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Question from a non pilot
I have picked up work in Ghana based in Takoradi but will spend a fair bit of time in Accra too ,I will be making trips offshore to a new oil field that is comming on line, who is it that I would be flying with to get offshore, what type of choppers do they use and where are the heliports roundabout this area.
Any info would be much appreciated
Any info would be much appreciated
You don't like Willy? But he, like you, is ex-Bristow
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At least Bristow kept P.S (the pilot concerned) on the overseas payroll for a couple of months to get him into the new tax year.
One can only hope that "Willy" will end up getting taken hostage for a few months.
One can only hope that "Willy" will end up getting taken hostage for a few months.
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"Allegedly"
Yes, but unlike him I did not stitch up a fellow pilot with a police drugs raid one evening, causing a night in the local cells and departure (and loss of employment) within 24 hours
Assumption is really the mother of all f*ck ups "allegedly"
One can only hope that "Willy" will end up getting taken hostage for a few months.
Just as somebody somewhere may just be wishing for you to get taken hostage for a few months as well. What goes around really does come around, you know. Be careful what you wish for others.
Assumption is really the mother of all f*ck ups "allegedly"
One can only hope that "Willy" will end up getting taken hostage for a few months.
Just as somebody somewhere may just be wishing for you to get taken hostage for a few months as well. What goes around really does come around, you know. Be careful what you wish for others.
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Well if the proponent were still in Nigeria....the "Stitcher" would have ample opportunity to effect such a "kidnapping".
As the situation extant precludes such payback....then I submit wishing for "Stitcher" to experience an opportunity to mend his ways and do some careful reflection while doing so might prove to be beneficial for him.
Besides....if one is to get into the "wishing" business....one should at least do so with a purpose.
I can think of a few others that a forced visit with MEND might be good to read about....not that I wish it upon them....but the very news of it would tickle me pink provided they were merely held a while then released.
As the situation extant precludes such payback....then I submit wishing for "Stitcher" to experience an opportunity to mend his ways and do some careful reflection while doing so might prove to be beneficial for him.
Besides....if one is to get into the "wishing" business....one should at least do so with a purpose.
I can think of a few others that a forced visit with MEND might be good to read about....not that I wish it upon them....but the very news of it would tickle me pink provided they were merely held a while then released.
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Sadly the gentleman concerned has now experienced what goes around comes around. He will be hard pushed to garner any sympathy from those in the know, apart from the version residing between s*** and syphilis in the dictionary. I remember his performance on the Ubit very well...my upgrade students these days are lightyears ahead.
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Bristow Lads, is it really all that bad.
I flew home recently and sat with 2 Bristow chaps. Their main topic of conversation was food and daily living allowance. Daily living allowance has apparently been readjusted and has gone down in value, their restaurant food prices going up while food quality is going down. The topic that really raised their voices was that someone has been stealing tea and coffee so everyone is being punished and being made to pay for tea and coffee with no increase in daily allowance. If that last point is true about everyone being punished, isnt that an ethics issue. Kobi was the word they used.
I flew home recently and sat with 2 Bristow chaps. Their main topic of conversation was food and daily living allowance. Daily living allowance has apparently been readjusted and has gone down in value, their restaurant food prices going up while food quality is going down. The topic that really raised their voices was that someone has been stealing tea and coffee so everyone is being punished and being made to pay for tea and coffee with no increase in daily allowance. If that last point is true about everyone being punished, isnt that an ethics issue. Kobi was the word they used.
One crime, one punishment, applied equally to all....no violation of stamdards there.
It is the new Bristow for sure....in the old days...one crime...multiple punishments or none, depending upon your handshake or some other abstract qualification, applied to some vice all.
It is the new Bristow for sure....in the old days...one crime...multiple punishments or none, depending upon your handshake or some other abstract qualification, applied to some vice all.
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True Loyalty
There's a saying that if you think safety's expensive, wait until you have an accident. Bristow may well soon discover that the same is true of loyalty 
There is still plenty of loyalty in our fine Company. Did we not learn the loyalty values from fine leaders from the olden days like my oyibo brother with my name Brian Coolings who once led us from his Red Hills Palace. He taught us the values of the strange handshakes and the ways of the freed masonries? I heard tell that he was as fine the business man and snappy dresser as the famous Arthur Daley from mender. I would buy a car from mister Brian and be happy even when it breaks down. Did not his son young Tommy Coolings through his fine brains and hardest work become the youngest General Manager of the whole of the Australias?
A man cannot look after the troubles of the whole World. He must know his family and take care of them first - is this not the way of our country? We cannot afford to be loyal to every Tom Jack or Henry, we have to take care of the likes of the Bills and Jock Bosses first of all. Did not the freed masonries teach this fact? We must be certain their shares become highest again so stop your crying.
If you do not show the loyalty and leave us for greener postures you will find yourself driving the Air Buses for the Arab men and living in the squalor of the deserts like Idle Des dreaming of the day when you can return to the fine conditions of Eket or the splendour of Coronation Street.
We in humane resources know how to be truly loyal to those who matter.
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Your head is so far up your own a55, you're starting to mistake bull5h1t for roses........
If you really want a workforce that has any real loyalty, best you pull it out!!!
If you really want a workforce that has any real loyalty, best you pull it out!!!
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Dear Fe.. Co..ins
I think you must be high on weed or as a matter of fact khat. If you say that you care for those who really matter then I say LIAR, LIAR, LIAR...you delusional piece of garbage
Then how come that some people quit and walk away from this oh so good company. Get real, and stop talking out of your rec.um
Then how come that some people quit and walk away from this oh so good company. Get real, and stop talking out of your rec.um
Fishing is good today fellas!
OK FC now reel em in but remember its tag and release.........
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You get the flak - you deserve it!!!
Maybe F..k C..lings shall receive an award for destroying a perfectly well run business unit. And as for the humane resources department I would say it is the insane resource department.
I mean what are you trying to prove? That you are better than perhaps someone else? I really had a high regard for Bristow and I still do...BUT YOU NEED TO BE REPLACED BY SOMEONE WHO HAS THE COURAGE AND THE GUTS AND PARTICULARLY THE BRAINS ... - by the way do you know how to spell "brains"? - how to run an SBU properly. Until then I would suggest you pick a canoe and run the security runs around various platforms - could be quite enlightening.
And as for the dynamite fishing bring it on; I'd add C4
I mean what are you trying to prove? That you are better than perhaps someone else? I really had a high regard for Bristow and I still do...BUT YOU NEED TO BE REPLACED BY SOMEONE WHO HAS THE COURAGE AND THE GUTS AND PARTICULARLY THE BRAINS ... - by the way do you know how to spell "brains"? - how to run an SBU properly. Until then I would suggest you pick a canoe and run the security runs around various platforms - could be quite enlightening.
And as for the dynamite fishing bring it on; I'd add C4
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can anyone tell me if there are any jobs going out there. i have 1200hrs on r22 r44 no turbine so i take it that puts me out of the running. any ideas would be good ,who should i be contacting.
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Very good, I just about choked on my musli! Someone with a good sense of history, I'm struggling for a suitable repost. What was particularly interesting was the responses from some of the windees, (as opposed to the winder). I remember, as I'm sure most of us do, the first transfer of power from Alan to Brian and the sense of forboding we all had with the idea that an accountant would run the business. The situation then deteriorated further with the series of New Suits which through the many 'Management Buyouts', stripped the last semblance of operational dignity (as well as the cash) from the company while monthly bollockings were handed down through the chain of command via telex demanding why there was an error of 10 minutes on the Non-Rev time for LU in August, or the regular scolding we got from the 'Red Palace' as to the level of Non-Rev training Eket was doing (the center of training excellence in Nigeria), all with the BC moniker attached. As one of the major legs of the oil business the helicopter industry does it's self a disservice, with the oil price fluctuating in the region of $100, and the extraordinary forsight that was used when Ab Initio training became a filthy word, the pilots SHOULD be the best treated on the planet.
Alan understood the business and did a great sales pitch to the oil industry. Brian only knew money and had the Nigeria connections from his Fisons days, though they both shared a common weakness (and I say this with the greatest deal of irony).
As a way of comparison, we in the squalor of the desert my masters have been rubbing their hands with glee. It seems only weeks ago that there were full page articles in the local papers, agonising over where all the extra pilots were going to come from, now I just have to mention the Litany; Oasis Hong Kong, Zoom, Silverjet, Eos and today XL along with the others too minor to mention or those hovering in the sidelines like Alitalia and 'A Major American Carrier'. The grass is greener here, (though regularly watered by a small army of Sub Continent refugees). Any time I fly with a whiner, I just drop into the conversation my 7 years in Nigeria and the noise from the other seat seems to dry up for a few minutes (some serial whiners will just NEVER be happy).
Respect guys, you need to be treated better - but you'all knew that already.
Speaking of respect, I have been missing Chucks acerbic sense of humour, how has my desert squalor sharee been doing, I would have thought he would have dived in here...
Idle Des in Dubai
Alan understood the business and did a great sales pitch to the oil industry. Brian only knew money and had the Nigeria connections from his Fisons days, though they both shared a common weakness (and I say this with the greatest deal of irony).
As a way of comparison, we in the squalor of the desert my masters have been rubbing their hands with glee. It seems only weeks ago that there were full page articles in the local papers, agonising over where all the extra pilots were going to come from, now I just have to mention the Litany; Oasis Hong Kong, Zoom, Silverjet, Eos and today XL along with the others too minor to mention or those hovering in the sidelines like Alitalia and 'A Major American Carrier'. The grass is greener here, (though regularly watered by a small army of Sub Continent refugees). Any time I fly with a whiner, I just drop into the conversation my 7 years in Nigeria and the noise from the other seat seems to dry up for a few minutes (some serial whiners will just NEVER be happy).
Respect guys, you need to be treated better - but you'all knew that already.
Speaking of respect, I have been missing Chucks acerbic sense of humour, how has my desert squalor sharee been doing, I would have thought he would have dived in here...
Idle Des in Dubai