Bigmike, appologies, you are right. Post edited!
One other important difference for night EMS in Oz as opposed to US and NZ (not sure about UK) is that we have a night VFR LSALT requirement similar to IFR LSALT. We cannot cruise below 1000 ft AGL (simplification here) within 10nm of the aircraft (7 with GPS) regardless of visibility or illumination. But then we dont have a requirement for a visual horizon, nor ground visual.
Intrested to hear your responses to the front seat crewman approach that the Oz operators have adopted to reduce risk exposure to SP ops.
Last edited by helmet fire; 12th Oct 2005 at 05:26.