Rescue from Wells cathedral roof

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[email protected] quoted:

“It's called being professional which is probably why we were asked to do the job instead of letting a scratch crew who have only ever winched over the water without live people on the wire pitch up and make a mess of it.”

Crab,
In answer to your earlier question, it appears that you are the tw@t.

Have you got an extra-large size flying helmet to get your rather big head in? Your attitude is an embarrassment to the RAF and all helicopter pilots who do not usually go around trying to blow their own trumpet and put other helicopter crews down in the way you have.

Just because you can spend 100% of your duty time preparing for/training for/occasionally carrying out such SAR tasks does not mean that other RN (or other UK forces helicopters crews) are not professional at carrying out rescues (sometimes in far worse conditions and circumstances than the Wells Cathedral rescue). For example, outside of your RAF SAR capability range capability who do you think carries out SAR rescues? Yes RN and other UK military helicopter crews. This is despite them usually not even having the luxury of the types of extra equipment and back-up specialist local resources that you can call on in the UK.

For example, RN helicopters operating from frigates and destroyers may be the only helicopter available to carry out any types of helicopter rescue requirement (land or sea) in some other parts of the world. They may also not have any other local back-up resources available to support them apart from what their own ship may be able to provide. Those RN crews also have to carry out numerous other roles (often in very demanding circumstances).

No doubt many of the other Yeovilton Sea King Commando and Lynx crews have experienced much more difficult rescue and operational challenges (often in war/conflict conditions) than a daylight winching task off a UK Cathedral roof with lots of other professional emergency service specialists present to assist.

I am sure that most military/civilians will be very grateful to have professional RN (and other UK Forces) helicopter crews continue to rescue them when you are not personally available or capable of rescuing them.

Well done to the rest of your SAR crew who actually got on with the good job done (without the need to blow their own trumpet and put others down like you did).