Ah leave Crab alone. It's always good to have a different point of view when raising issues such as night flying currency, lack of servicable cabs etc. As for the original question, we can fly upto four hours a shift, in fact I feel a few decks and maybe wets coming on this morning followed by a wee bit of IF to polish off the shift. In my experience of mil SAR I spent many more days looking out of the window not flying cos of 'eng' days, u/s cabs and flying too many hours of the aircraft due to jobs etc than I ever have in civi street. I can confidently say that I personally went from a 'don't fly if you don't have to' regime to one of 'fly as much as you can'. Still it's been three years now since I left the mob so things may have changed, then again!
