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Old 6th Oct 2005, 07:47
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headsethair
 
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In the UK the CAA released a FODCOM (Jan 04) after 2 "LTE" filming incidents in 03. The FODCOM of course made no reference to the facts that the two machines involved were 206 models.
A year later (!!) the BBC released an internal Health & Safety Alert to all production departments, referring to the CAA alert and stating that all productions must ask any helicopter operator they book a series of questions about LTE.
What a mucking fuddle that caused. It flashed up on the BBC internal email system as a major alert making everyone drop their media glasses onto the tips of their noses and panic. Suddenly, all helicopters were going to kill you.
God save us from the clipboard and box-ticking mentality.
LTE isn't a cause of accidents. It's a symptom of bad driving.
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