Originally Posted by
outnabout
I am fairly certain that the RFDS only use car headlights or dunny rolls soaked in fuel as a last resort, after a thorough risk assessment.
I would bet money that these are also only used for urgent medical-vac, not just coz they felt like it.
I am also fairly certain that RFDS pilots are current, confident, and at the top of their game before they get signed off for night work.
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Back when I was paid to do that the process was risk assessed (although we didn't call it by those words) and many airfields in my patch had only flares, car lights, cat eye reflectors or a combination.. It wasn't only life and death ops, but it wasn't for a sniffle either. Of course this was all ops manual approved.
What about farmer Joe?