Thanks vpaw.
Jim, my comments re the VFR NGO were purely to expose the inaccuracies of generalisations and it was purposely meant not to pass any kind of comment on those organisations. It was quite clear to me that there were inferences from previous posts that these organisations were somehow proof that the NGOs were slow to innovate. I refute that.
I didnt know that Careflight had conducted a CASA approved trial of NVGs, i thought Vic Pol were the ones who did that.
I didn't know that either Jim, nor did I say it at any stage. Where on earth did you get that from????
VicPol, as vpaw points out, conducted the trial following more than 10 years of work by Mike Tavcar. Do a simple search here on Pprune for the report and all it's information. They should be (or already are) leading this industry out of the brail method and into Night Vision Ops.