UK CAA Allows Emergency Breathing Systems
According to Flight International this week, the UK CAA has chosen not to mandate or ban the use of emergency breathing systems on UK helicopters flying overwater, electing to make individual operators responsible for the device.
I believe that some of the passengers on oil flights use a form of emergency rebreather, but what systems are used by any of the civil operators?
The RAF and RN aircrew use the STASS (Short Term Air Supply System), but they regularly train in its use both on the pool side and in the dunker. UK offshore civil pilots regularly carry out dunker training, but do they use any form of emergency breathing system? If so, what do they use and how often do they train using it?