I too was amazed to see the Allouette landing in amongst lamp posts in a city street at night - Rather them than me.. .. .Apologies for going slightly off the thred, but can anyone remind me of the current rules (UK) of flying VFR at night. My understanding of CAA ops was that there is no VFR at night only Special VFR under which rules I have flown many times. The problem comes that SVFR only exists in controlled airspace so how do people get around that rule to fly single engine helicopters at night outside of controlled airspace. For that matter, under what rules was Mathew Harding's helicopter flying when it crashed (1996 I think) flying from Coventry to Heathrow at night in a Twin Squirrel but without an IFR rated pilot ?