Sasless: Bristow's will operate to CAP999, the Mil: no rules really. Do what you need to do, to get the job done. If it means flying under HT cables - do it, If it means hover taxiing up the face of a mountain in zero viz/swirling snow, hoping to stay visual with the rock face - so be it. In fact we'll give you a medal for so doing. If it means landing on the side of a mountain in white out conditions to pick up a dead body - do it. Crash however - and suddenly .......you have no friends. That's the difference between the CAA and the Mil. The CAA tries to prevent you from losing your friends. The mil lends you some rope.
Again, I re-iterate and I ask all military personnel to remember this: In civvy street the word "attrition" doesn't exist in the Ops manual (AOC). You're going to have to recalibrate your outlook when you cross the divide.
A duty of care runs thru the fabric of civvy aviation which doesn't exist to the same extent in the mil. The mil is only just learning this through the introduction of the MAA, which this generation of mil managers will struggle with for years to come.
By all means massage these principles when under enemy fire, but there is absolutely no room whatsoever for attrition in any mil / or civvy SAR environment (CSAR is another story).
Your answer SASless is: CAP 999.
Last edited by Thomas coupling; 29th Mar 2013 at 01:59.