Can someone tell me how long it takes to train an ambulance man to assist a landing on NVGs ?
If Paramedics are trained the same as Police Observers, then it'll be an hour or so of groundschool, then a 1 hour training sortie, split between the front and the back of the aircraft, then a 40 minute check ride, again split between front and back. However, that's going from Stage 1 to Stage 2. I believe that the AAs will be trained straight to Stage 2, so the training will be slightly longer.
The main problem at the moment(for us anyway) is a lack of NVG TREs. Having done the training we seem unlikely to get authorised due to the CAA unable to come up before our last NVG TRE goes to pastures new.
'you can do it operationally but we won't let you train to do it'
Crab, I thought you were harping on about the requirement for daylight recces earlier? We can go into a field at night as a training sortie, as long as it's been recced.