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I've heard of a couple of crewmen that have had interviews with Bond. I've also heard an unconfirmed rumour that they are not taking crewmen over the age of 35. Anyone care to confirm/deny/enlighten on this?
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Seems to have gone very quiet on Jigsaw.
Scuttlebutt in SAR world doesn't seem to know of any experienced SAR pilot being offered a job. In fact several experienced pilot's turned down.
Anybody know what is going on?
Scuttlebutt in SAR world doesn't seem to know of any experienced SAR pilot being offered a job. In fact several experienced pilot's turned down.
Anybody know what is going on?
Looks like the Senior Pilot from Bond Air Services is joining BOH to run Jigsaw. Expect movement on this subject shortly
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Bond Air services senior pilot means SENIOR pilot, chief pilot, whatever you want to call him, if you know who he is, then you know his history, hadn't heard that he was heading it up, just making a move for his last few years.
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jigsaw recruiting
Jigsaw is very much alive and kicking.They have recruited all thier captains and they are in country converting to type. On the subject of rearcrew they have just completed interviews for the training team and have selected a guy called ashley"rob" roy an ex RN SAR crewman from Prestwick who last job was a line winchman at Slygo for CHC as the Chief Aircrewman. If you have not heard from BondOS having submitted your CV you are not one of the "selected few" on the training team but with a "on line" date of Dec 05 they have got to get thier finger out and train the 4 operational crews required.
All the rumours of watch systems are right on the button.Its 2 weeks on the rigs two weeks off, 2 weeks at SCATSA two weeks off and two weeks based at Aberdeen and repeat the cycle. Heres the interesting bit PAY:The top whack for the winch ops is £41K this includes all your bonus's for rig time ect....do the maths and you will see that this contract falls well within what Bristows and CHC are paying for in country SAR crews if you take the given that you do 18 shifts on the rigs a year.
Watch this space for breaking news as Jigsaw goes on line.
PS: They are starting this venture form scratch from the L2 to the toaster..I think that they mean business!!!
All the rumours of watch systems are right on the button.Its 2 weeks on the rigs two weeks off, 2 weeks at SCATSA two weeks off and two weeks based at Aberdeen and repeat the cycle. Heres the interesting bit PAY:The top whack for the winch ops is £41K this includes all your bonus's for rig time ect....do the maths and you will see that this contract falls well within what Bristows and CHC are paying for in country SAR crews if you take the given that you do 18 shifts on the rigs a year.
Watch this space for breaking news as Jigsaw goes on line.
PS: They are starting this venture form scratch from the L2 to the toaster..I think that they mean business!!!
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Its 2 weeks on the rigs two weeks off, 2 weeks at SCATSA two weeks off and two weeks based at Aberdeen and repeat the cycle.
18 shifts per year offshore? I make it you do 5 two weeks stints offshore on the above quoted scheme plus the same in Scatsta.
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North Sea Jigsaw
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A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!!! or is just sour grapes on your part coz you didn't get in??
You can't have been to Bond otherwise you would know the pay is more than 41,000
Perhaps you are just trying to put decent backseaters off so you can get a look in!! Touching any raw nerves yet!!!
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!!! or is just sour grapes on your part coz you didn't get in??
You can't have been to Bond otherwise you would know the pay is more than 41,000
Perhaps you are just trying to put decent backseaters off so you can get a look in!! Touching any raw nerves yet!!!
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Looks like the knives are starting to come out......... Maybe because Bristow seem to be on the up at last ? CHC don't appear to have proved much after the inital shock, shame people lost their jobs in the meantime.
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Looking at the shift pattern there does seem to be some holes in it.
To cover 24 hours at Scatsta and offshore you need at least 4 crews, assuming the other 4 are on time off then it becomes 8 crews and then 10 if you have 1 two week period in Aberdeen.
In my calculations you will exceed the 2000 duty hour limit under the new european working time directive which comes in to force on the 13th April. Apparently that comes with either a £1000 fine or a prison sentence for anyone who does!!!!! Nice, you go to prison for working too hard, what utter sh....
Bristow are working on this problem at the moment, CHC Ireland units appear to know nothing about it (from my sources) and neither does Bond if the above is what they are proposing.
Meanwhile, it seems the new Bond co-pilots starting in September have already been told they WILL be going on jigsaw after their first year.
RTS.
To cover 24 hours at Scatsta and offshore you need at least 4 crews, assuming the other 4 are on time off then it becomes 8 crews and then 10 if you have 1 two week period in Aberdeen.
In my calculations you will exceed the 2000 duty hour limit under the new european working time directive which comes in to force on the 13th April. Apparently that comes with either a £1000 fine or a prison sentence for anyone who does!!!!! Nice, you go to prison for working too hard, what utter sh....
Bristow are working on this problem at the moment, CHC Ireland units appear to know nothing about it (from my sources) and neither does Bond if the above is what they are proposing.
Meanwhile, it seems the new Bond co-pilots starting in September have already been told they WILL be going on jigsaw after their first year.
RTS.
