The issue of the improper use of military helicopters for commercial work continues to rear it's ugly head. The BHAB believed they had sorted this out years ago with it being an MOD requirement that the military charge for any work performed and at a real rate and then only when no civilian aircraft could do the task.
We got caught out by this a number of years ago. We leased a Lama from Dollar for a load lifting job for the Yorkshire Electricity Board. The call never came and that night on the local news was an army Lynx from Dishforth carrying out the work as "a training exercise".
So we paid for a Scotland return trip just for the aircraft and crew to sit around all day.
Expensive and sickening.
Nice to see the Lama again though, queen of the skies.
Last edited by ericferret; 8th Jul 2013 at 19:09.