If the CAA take a dim view of a pilot's actions, it is his licence and therefore livelihood that is at risk - will there be a conflict of interests there?
Will the CAA baulk when they realise how much SAR work has no chance of meeting PC1 or even PC2 standards, especially at night?
Who will carry the can if a non-licensed winchop, using AHT on a vessel or similar structure because the pilot's references are poor, manages to get close enough for a tip-strike?
Crab,
you still haven't grasped that civ SAR have been taking calculated risks of the nature you refer to for years but the CAA accept the risk v reward judgement of crews and the whole thing has been very successful. It won't be the CAA the individual will be worried about if they make a bags of it, more the lawyers in the subsequent board of inquiry......