Originally Posted by
drugsdontwork
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... How many times did we commit to nasty hover taxiing up hills for a twisted sock? All the bloody time. All of us did it. We got away with it largely thank god.
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There. Reality.
However,
the risk-taking of UK MilSAR was easily eclipsed by the military flyers of some allied nations. I have heard several scary tales of daring-do from SAR Force pilots describing their experiences while training in other territories (the helicopter near miss with the bus always sticks in my mind
). Some of the civilian rescue flying in other EASA territories raises eyebrows in these parts and the rate of European Human External Cargo accidents is still too high.
So UK MilSAR flying was safe in relation to many other examples and now UK CivSAR is safer. And the job is still being done very very well.
Thank you to all those working to keep us safe on the wire.
