CHC Irish SAR pilots work to rule

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CHC Irish SAR pilots work to rule

#1 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:24 pm

Helicopter pilots working for the Irish Coast Guard search-and-rescue service are to take industrial action from midday on Thursday in a dispute over rosters. The service is over-reliant on overtime in order to maintain the required level of service, and has survived for a prolonged period on the goodwill and tolerance of the pilots themselves.

If Crab from TOP was on these forums he would be apoplectic about this report!

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It was ever the same elsewhere. I will have been retired 20 years this year but even way back then Bristow used to ring you up on a day off and try and get you in with the promise of a lieu day later or else the going rate for payment was £190 for the day - regardless of whether it was a quick 3 hour trip or a prolonged split duty day. I had two telephone lines at home - one was a Bristow exclusive which they paid for and the other was my own line which they knew nothing about.

I just could not understand how pilots would prostitute themselves for around £19 an hour for a possible 10 hour duty day and lose a day off in lieu as a result. My days off were far more important than a measly hourly rate. I think after I retired the rate went up to £400 a day which was a bit more like it.

Don't get me wrong - I would always help out on a lieu day basis if I could but I never worked on a day off for the measly payment that was offered.
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#2 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:30 pm

Reminds me of working for the NHS, don't blame them. Hope they get what they want.
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#3 Post by Boac » Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:52 pm

If Crab from TOP was on these forums
- get him on!!

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#4 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:16 pm

Boac wrote:
Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:52 pm
If Crab from TOP was on these forums
- get him on!!
No, oh please, no!! If anything was going to drive me away from this site it would be the arrival of Crab. In all seriousness....and FD2 would probably join me.
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#5 Post by FD2 » Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:40 am

Oh yes - very definitely - so no invitations to the light blue pedant please! [-X

If an operation continually relies on the goodwill of the staff in order to cobble together a flying duty roster then it is clearly under-staffed. Lean is OK, serious under-manning is not. :-q

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#6 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:48 am

Noted!! There was me thinking you 'rotarian' chaps were all mates together.... :ymdevil:

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#7 Post by Cacophonix » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:42 am

Boac wrote:
Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:48 am
Noted!! There was me thinking you 'rotarian' chaps were all mates together.... :ymdevil:
FD2 and C16 seem to be typical of the small number of heli folks I have interacted with either online or in person, i.e. friendly, reasonable, obviously hugely skilful and possessing good senses of humour. Basically good blokes! What characteristics in that list could this Crab outlier be missing? =))

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#8 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:57 am

Well - he is described a 'light blue, (as in 'Crab') by our chaps which is enough for ex-RN chaps. :))

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#9 Post by Cacophonix » Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:02 pm

Boac wrote:
Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:57 am
Well - he is described a 'light blue, (as in 'Crab') by our chaps which is enough for ex-RN chaps. :))

Ah, interservice rivalry eh! =))

Seems a bit unreasonable to damn a man for the colour of his uniform, or even his underpants for that matter! ;)))

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#10 Post by CharlieOneSix » Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:35 pm

Absolutely nothing to do with interservice rivalry. Just didn't like his posts, his attitude and his "only the RAF know how to do SAR" stance. He's now an ex-crab as UK SAR went to Bristow and he wasn't one of the RAF SAR personnel who transferred to them.
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#11 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:53 pm

Hey, guys, I was joshing!

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#12 Post by CharlieOneSix » Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:10 pm

Boac - no probs, I realised that. :) It's just that the poster in question winds me up even though he's not here!
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#13 Post by Cacophonix » Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:13 pm

My comments were made with my tongue very firmly in my cheek as well! :)

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#14 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:39 pm

Hence-forward to be known as 'Thrush', not 'Crab', then?

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#15 Post by CharlieOneSix » Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:33 pm

Ha, like it! Very droll!i :D
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#16 Post by FD2 » Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:14 pm

Thrush is perfect! Any of the dark blue light blue stuff not relevant in this case, just the personality. I was a little tongue in cheek with that! 🦀😉

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