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Old 28th Mar 2014, 13:36
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The helicopter has to be prepared for flight having just been transported across Australia.

It then needs to fly out and embark in HMAS Success from where it will operate. It can certainly do that at night but with limited SAR capability and no life saving reason why take such a risk on such a long transit by night?

Far better to launch at dawn with the top cover of other SAR fitted fixed wing aircraft around.
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