I never mentioned, nor implied, anything about gross unprofessionalism.
The cold fact is that VFR is less safe than IFR.
If I heard a commercial operating jet operating from a to b OCTA under the VFR I'd think that odd. There could be a perfectly valid reason for it, but I can't think of one that would offset the reduction in safety from a risk management point of view. No one else has replied either with one.
Mining companies mostly have higher requirements than CASA in general for aviation operations. The ones I've dealt with over the years insist on all ops (even OCTA and with two separate independant satellite tracking systems on board) being IFR.
For a reason.
Last edited by compressor stall; 25th Nov 2012 at 12:44.