All this rubbish about charging people to rescue them must be a joke, surely. People cannot be that stupid to even infer that that might happen.
How many bills has the Coastguard sent out from 1969?
How many bills has the RNLI sent out since 1824?
There is also another amazing thing on this thread. Apparantly helicopters can perform way beyond the laws of physics when there is a steely eyed miltary pilot at the controls. According ot one south western MP military helicopters do not require the pilot "to have to one eye on the fuel guage" so they obviously cannot run out of fuel mid Atlantic either.
Military or civil they can only do so much and both are fully aware that the aircraft will be required to do the same job tomorrow so forget any imaginary insurance restrictions.
To infer that civilian aircrews will shirk a job because of company instructions is an insult to those who have flown this operation for years and shows an abysmal lack of knowledge of their procedures.
Last edited by Fareastdriver; 27th Mar 2013 at 12:24.