Not doing NVG is not the same thing as not doing night jobs
True and in fact the 'not quite day/not quite night' scenario is much more dangerous as it is too bright for NVG but not dark enough for white light.
It is that time when a pilot can be suckered into using daytime techniques without appreciating there are actually insufficient visual cues to do so.
I always did day into night Cat check sorties to highlight the problems.
I hear there is a great deal of NVD training going on with Bristow in an attempt to get the pilots with lots of S92/139 time but no NVD time up to speed - tricky at this time of the year with such short nights. I wonder how many extra training hours they will need, beyond the 1.5 hrs per day allocation, to get them up to full operational SAR standard rather than basic NVD operators - and who will be paying for all that training???