Nowt personal
I don't know the guys involved. I have no axe to grind. I did spend 5 years flying the BN2 for Logy, and I'm afraid I would have to say Machrihanish was very routine. It was a very very common callout, and a simple procedure. Now if you know the job, you know about night Barras, night Islays, or night Orkneys or Shetland (Foula omigod!!!!!) where things were very different. Just like pickups from, say Dundee or Perth in the middle of the night and a long haaul down to BHX or CAM to get to a transplant hospital. Single pilot all that way, and back, IFR/IMC, hmmmm, not a career choice, and hence the turnover. I'm not trying to judge anything, just to agree that to lose three hulls with those fatalities HAS to say something about the operator, and possibly its oversight of training and experience on the job.