Sincere condolences to all at Loganair on their sad loss
Mad Jock
I think you will find that the helicopters you question about have been in place providing a service to the Scottish Ambulance Service for several years working out of Inverness and Glasgow. I think you can therefore take it that they are quite familiar with operating in the highlands of Scotland both day and night.
The helicopter service has been 24 hrs for a number of years, the 135 is a good machine, full glass cockpit, a v. good autopilot inlcuding auto ILS, radar, moving map, gps, rad alt. The aircraft is full single-pilot IFR and all the pilots are IR. You should see some of the night landing sites they use! (and hovering is natural in a helo). Your comments seemed, unfairly, dispariging about both the helicopters and their crews.