Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
NVGs for onshore ops? Will never happen, the training and currency requirements alone would kibosh it, let alone the cost. Even the police in the UK struggle to maintain currency.
I also don't think CastAir have a multi-crew AOC
NVIS training is not overly onerous, but every penny counts to private helicopter companies, and they will not go to NVIS ops as long as they can get away with not spending the money. Even if NVIS is best practice in our industry (which it unquestionably is), until something is mandated then these sorts of accidents and incidents will happen because its routine for the operator. Currency is not an issue in police ops but even if it was, most medium to big onshore companies either have access to a sim or have their own sim where currency is easily maintained....