I've always been hugely respectful of the Loganair air amb pilots and even moreso now after some of what's been said on this thread. What I can't understand is how the CAA have dealt with all this - night ops into 500m rough grass strips on tiny islands in the Atlantic with no prior training etc. Presumably, if they're ambulance flights, they're public transport even though the patient isn't exactly paying? So if they're flying into unlicensed strips in an aircraft >2730kgs, especially at night, they must have some sort of standing exemption from various provisions of the ANO, not to mention JAR-OPS 1? I would have thought regulatory oversight would be even more stringent where people are operating on exemptions.
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