Reply To: Rov Pilot Grade II

Go for PT2 and dont worry what they say on here a PT2 is a trainee all the same what ever any one says we all know you are looking for a start and dont need smart comments from ray in aberdeen or salee in sa.

Ray maybe you should contact IMCA and tell them what you think!!!!!!

I disagree. No matter what IMCA guidelines say (and they are guidelines that are very loosely adhered by ROV Co’s at best) the operational reality offshore is somewhat different.

How can a Trainee be sensibly viewed (or employed as) a Pilot Tech at any grade?

The very title alone (Pilot and Tech) infers that they are able to Pilot an ROV in an operational environment and attend to it’s Technical requirements on deck. None of which a trainee would be able to do with any competence.

I can imagine the scenario, in a control shack, where the client is asking why the person on the sticks can’t fly the ROV when they are on-board as a Pilot Tech only to be told that that person has very little/no piloting experience and is in fact a Trainee and therefore not actually a Pilot nor an ROV Tech with any experience.

For those of you that have only been in the game a few years.
Just because a number of companies have been short over the last few years and have managed to get away with filling PTII slots with Trainees does not mean that a Trainee is now automatically a PTII.

best regards
James Mc