[QUOTE=Experience should be relied on not to get yourself into that dire situation in the first place, rather than be relied upon to get yourself out of the dire situation you got yourself into.[/QUOTE]
Agreed, I was referring to the comment that the aircraft was new to them or the Air Corps. It had been in service since the mid eighties and would have been very much a known quantity both organisationally and to the crew. There had been a daytime SAR operation in Waterford for years, it was the night element at that base and the location/type mix that was new.