SAR question...

[The Ferret]

Rn Sar

I recently spent a few years as an aircraft commander on an RN SAR Roster and we would come on watch at 0800 and fly one day SAR Training Flight in a 24 hours shift and if anybody in the crew was not night current (2 hours that month) we would also fly a night training sortie (night cliff winching/night boats transfers etc). So on a normal 24 hr duty we would normally only fly one sortie of about 1.30 - not 4 hrs! If we flew at night we may fly 3hrs max plus any hours we flew on Shouts!