Safety
I have been flying a long time. A safe program will have the same safety record as the rest of the industry,and that covers the whole planet. I think the ratio is about 5 or 6 % of flights have an incident of some kind. I am not certain on the number as I have not reviewed the data in several months. There are a lot of things that influence flight opps other than the actual mission. Appropriate qualified maintenance, management pressure to fly especially from a management that has no concept of HEMS. You can do everything else and let just one thing have the wrong influence and the crew pays the ultimate price. At the end of the day a person can have all of the letters of the alphabet and all the numbers after their name and still succumb to non compliance and complacency if management politicizes the program. Good luck with everything,just get paid well in advance and when the advance comes due again require payment or shut down opps immediately.
I have been flying a long time. A safe program will have the same safety record as the rest of the industry,and that covers the whole planet. I think the ratio is about 5 or 6 % of flights have an incident of some kind. I am not certain on the number as I have not reviewed the data in several months. There are a lot of things that influence flight opps other than the actual mission. Appropriate qualified maintenance, management pressure to fly especially from a management that has no concept of HEMS. You can do everything else and let just one thing have the wrong influence and the crew pays the ultimate price. At the end of the day a person can have all of the letters of the alphabet and all the numbers after their name and still succumb to non compliance and complacency if management politicizes the program. Good luck with everything,just get paid well in advance and when the advance comes due again require payment or shut down opps immediately.