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Old 19th Sep 2013, 17:18
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The Sikorsky automated Rig Approach is not so much about bad weather as about getting the aircraft to the appropriate relative position in relation to the rig / platform every time, good, bad weather day or night.

If the pilot doesn't like what he sees, just leave it alone and the aircraft will perform a safe GA. As you know, it's the GA in bad weather or at night in good weather and the transition from visual to instrument that can and has (BLUN) go wrong.

I would have thought that an automated system which delivered you stable to the same (allowing for W/V) place each time would have met with your approval, even if the box didn't say made in France by Eurocopter.
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