A Pandora's Box indeed.........
You can file a "Med" "Hosp" "SAR" Fire/Flood and others that I have forgotten..........this will give you "Special Handling" by Airservices Oz / ATC........but does not give you any right to deviate from the Rules.
A Mercy Flight is one step higher...........and is more an administrative protection/priviledge than anything else.......
You still can't take off with less fuel than is required..or into weather that others would'nt dare.....but you can exceed Dutytimes, curfews, and other soft rules.........and you will automatically receive all the help in the world from Airservices / ATC along the way.
But you have to justify each and every infringement...and in writing.....and if things go wrong ... in court!!!!
Roll over and go back to sleep.......after all I never got them into that predicament in the first place.......and I will be the first one blamed after the excitment has ceased.....
Last edited by Old Man Rotor; 7th October 2002 at 14:16.