Very true Crab….I plead guilty to unbridled thread drift.
It would be very interesting to find out what kind of power they had to pull to save the day.
The CVR would be interesting to. There are probably some lessons to be learned. I think there would be some “ Expletives Deleted “ and other non-PC remarks!
Well done to them for a recovery from a very bad situation.
We seem to have drifted a long way off the topic of praising the USCG crew for keeping the aircraft salt water free in some crappy conditions.
Perhaps we need more SAR pilots on here