If i'm reading your posts correctly, you're stating that "occasionally" and/ or "exceptionally" the P2 has been sent into the back to lend a hand, so....
Is this an acceptable practice, an SOP etc?
Is it purely a military acceptance or is it common with civvie SAR too?
Under what stages of the flight is this likely to be done?
What kind of help is the P2 providing?
Training sortie: Captain in LHS, Co in RHS, Winchman on the ground at base of cliff acting as target; Winchman trips,falls, breaks leg. Tide is coming in, nowhere to land, no time to swap seats, no time to get seconds airborne. Capt jumps out of seat, puts on Bosuns chair, gets winched down and rescues winchman. You couldn't make it up. Are you out there Ox?
