RWandB, thanks for your post, it clarifies much of what I had thought - but presumably the issue isn't confined to the 139 as many other helos probably have a similar VminI in their RFMs?
Bob -
Crab,
Please comfort us by telling us the RAF does not have any such conflicts or conundrums in its handful of Regulations, Procedures, SOP's, and Flying Orders?
sorry Bob, I can't hold the MAA up as a shining beacon of how to regulate aviation, we have replaced one system of byzantine complexity with another that relies on box-ticking and coloured matrices to evaluate safety.