Originally Posted by Sandy Toad
Crab is obviously right! Leave it to the Service Professionals. Otherwise we'll have 21 year olds with less than 1000 hours winching from single engined helicopters, at night even. Heaven forbid!
Oops! Sounds rather like Portland SAR in early 70's.
21? That old?
The joys of winch training in a Whirlwind 7, with the dulcet Irish tones of CPO Mooney commenting on his feet getting wet: whilst sitting in the doorway
Then again, 155 hours was a lot for a 19 year old
1st front line live SAR would have been around 5-600 hours TT, IIRC. Happy days, must stop that lamp from swinging...........