SASless,
It's about the limits you are allowed to fly to by your operating rules/regulations, etc, not what the aircraft, kit, crew are capable of actually achieving. Two fleets with exactly the same aircraft, equipment, crew experience, etc can be operating to very different limits depending on who owns/regulates them!
Al-bert,
You have nothing to apologize for, I'm just fed up of reading RAF vs RN pi*#ing contests on so many threads on pprune, JSF, carrier, MPA and now apparently SAR. I thought we were both supposed to be on the same side? The common enemy is the Treasury!!