TC: "Glad you're in Canada and not the UK, sunshine........"
- sunshine! ... a bit 'holier than thou'
I'm fairly pleased with the two lives I saved in the course of unrelated operations. To suggest that the rules which I may have 'flexed' endangered anyone is just drivel (unless you want to be pedantic). Had I actually breached any regs in so doing I would have been entirely entitled so to do - provided that I informed the relevant Authority afterwards - It's about sound judgement.
Pilots other than ex-mil plod types (TC) are capable of making judgment calls.
Sound judgement and self discipline (not to get 'carried away')with common sense beats 'blind rule following' in humanitarian situations.
9/11: you'd have had a hard time stopping me going to the roof to rescue people with your arguments about rules !
EMS of course should be done within systematic consraints, still common sense cannot be outlawed - surely! (don't call me)