Cazatou re your post #4889
You have hit the nail on the head – a most basic aspect of the planning that should have been established by the board as a starting point.
I would like to add to <<.... it would have been perfectly reasonable for that Officer to choose the HLS as a planned turning point as it was used by Detatchment Crews and it would have been an opportunity to view the site before being tasked into that site. >> that the flight was described as a training flight in one of the inquiries (it is the case that training is spliced in to any such flight whenever possible/acceptable to reduce the a/c hours of dedicated training flights, is it not?). And it was an ideal site to trial the CPLS, in my view.