Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
There have been several catastrophic failures recently leading to loss of life. Have ballistic chutes ever been looked at as a last ditch survival mechanism for helos?
It has also been reported that families of those lost are crowd funding to pay for their repatriation. Would a helicopter flight be considered high risk? Would standard holiday insurance not pay out?
Most travel insurance excludes training or self fly. Some policies allow commercial flights in small aircraft. Insurance is always based on where you LIVE and covers repatriation to that country not any third country.