it was mainly aimed at the production crews to respect the pilots decision about safe manoeuvres while filming.
This makes more sense...
Something for pilots to use in advance for attempting a low flying unforgiving terrain job in underpowered singles?
Mickjoebill
It has been issued because Beeb crews have been involved in 3 serious heli accidents, all with LTE apparantly as a contributory factor, and gives guidelines on What To Look For in your choice of filming pilot.
The common element in these crashes (as well as the death Valley incident in late December, fatal for the cameraman, and the March 3 incident) is a cameraman shooting out of the side door.
Stating the obvious that there is a connection between a pilot having to orientate the aircraft to suit the shot and LTE.
As a camera op who has done hand held, had a LTE incident fortunatley high enough to recover, as well as who has used stabilised gimbals it is obvious that gimbals are the safer way to go for complicated jobs at low level.
Surely the beeb should be encouraging the use of stabilised systems and finding the budget to pay for them.
The BBC owns a gimbal that does sod all as most BBC production departments don\'t know it exists!
There are now about 10? gimbals in the UK.
Wonder if BBC Health and Saftey know this!
Mickjoebill