Re: Three Dead....Another Night Bad Weather Flight Over Dark Terrain
SASless, to answer your point, we would have 2 pilots BOTH on NVG's. We always fly with 2 pilots at night. Under our company rules, you would already be breaking night weather minimums if you had no reference to the ground unaided.
This is really the problem isn't it. Guys pushing on when things start to turn bad. If you are not maintaining minimums, then you need to be turning back, or if that option has disapeared, then thinking about landing. Sure, everyone wants to get the patient to the hospital (little kid who's critical...) but you have to be able to say NO, and boy that is sometimes a very tough call...