Originally Posted by
SASless
The US Navy, US Coast Guard, and the USAF along with several other Militaries might challenge that view.
With AAR kit the USAF conducts very long range SAR Ops using the 60.
So you would be happy to sit in a hover over the water below MinSELf/VToss, at high AUM due to all the troops and weapons such that you have no chance of diving on the speed, in an aircraft that you know will sink like a stone and has no flotation gear at all?
I suspect 60 on the long range SAR jobs gets to the casualty with a low enough fuel state to hover OEI, AAR on the way home and mitigates the risks that way - not so much of an option on MCT Ops.