This current resurgence of the age-old flying siut debarcal takes me back to the mid 80's at ISK. The highly paid thinkers at the time mandated that SAR crews, on immediate readiness to get airborne within 15 mins (or quicker) of the hooter going off, wear blues rather than grow-bags. What a caffuffle (and delay) as scrambled crews struggled to get airborne whilst trying to change out of blues into flying rig. In fact, crews would often get airbone in blues and then get changed later on during the sortie ... the general attitude being
'let's get the bloody job done, try to save some poor sods lives and worry (possibly) about the rules & regs later'. I'm sure most of you would agree that this was a rediculus state of affairs and you'd probably question the sanity of the policy makers, as we did at the time. Admittedly, this salty tale may be slightly off thread, but not in terms of the source of such downright nonsense that sparked this inane thread in the first place!
