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Vie sans frontieres
Please explain what you're on about in post number 70 then when you say the regulator has introduced the idea of passengers not secured in seats.
Certainly.
'CAP 999, Helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR) in the UK - National Approval Guidance', has so far appeared in public in two forms. Version 2, in 2014, now puts the responsibility on the AOC holder to "request relevant permissions and exemptions from the regulations as appropriate to their SAR operational or training requirements". However, version 1, in 2010, at Appendix 1, listed 24 'Exemptions from Regulations'.
Amongst those exemptions, at Item 15, was the 'Alleviation from Requirements' of "Passengers not secured in seats. Alternative procedures must be established where there are insufficient seats available."