Two Crew Ops
A while back, when I did this Air Amb thing, I felt two sets of eyes were vital in marginal conditions, especially at night. More than once I used the nurse (as it was then) to help.
One time, needing to go into Islay on a particularly horrible night, I even took my wife (a trained nurse as well as experienced in light aviation). The brief was that I would fly heads down for best precision and my wife would look out and tell me when she could clearly see two parallel rows of runway lights. Then I would look up and land if I was visual. Mission was accomplished safely even if not quite iaw SOPs. Islay was also a location for the loss of a Heron Air Amb aircraft with no survivors.
On a nice day single crew is fine. At night and especially in marginal weather, it has to be two crew. I still think that night ops into Barra are amongst the most hazardous things I have ever done.
I hope these guys are the last to be lost on Scottish Air Ambulance operations but I fear they will not be.