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Old 20th Aug 2022, 23:11
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jimf671
 
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
I can only comment on what we did on UK Mil SAR - I don't know what limits are in the Bristow Ops manual - but as luckyrat says, if you could see the surface you were legal and on SAR didn't actually have to be clear of cloud. It had to be justified though - normally lifesaving.

HEMS will have higher minima but again, those will be in their ops manual.

I have operated in mountainous terrain day and night in crap weather and it isn't a place to be if you don't know what you are doing and don't have a really good reason to be there.

The pilot in the video didn't really have a clue and should have found a different route - at least he survived to learn the lesson, plenty don't.

ORS4 Nos 1070 & 1081 apply for UK SAR. These are exemptions and not specific so, yes, the actual limits, and associated mitigations, will be in the contractor's Ops Manual.
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