Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
One winch-op, standing on the EFS bags, pretty-much fills the door area. Seems an odd way of training, requiring the student to get out of the aircraft and stand on the bags.
That is what happens when a company with no clue selects the cheapest aircraft solution, rather than the correct one. It has taken over 2 years to get to this point, and they are still not training students in winching. Compared to the DHFS with the Griffin, the failure of MFTS is staggering.
Students will stand outboard and lean against a harness, just like none of the frontline types they will fly. Such a huge step backwards from the 412.
The crews at Valley are fantastic though, and none of this is their fault. They were given an almost impossible task, and they have achieved this despite MFTS, not because of it.