RVDT - According to that circular, you could have a PPLH holder with no IR (but having demonstrated very basic IF skills), with minimum night hours and single figure NVG hours acting as PIC on NVG - that's not worrying at all!!!
I note that a rad alt is mandated but a selectable low height bug and associated audio warning are just recommended! That couldn't possibly go wrong.
The circular is a nice list of things to cover but no real limits for things like 'low level searching' or winching - if a military SOP was written so loosely and without clear direction, it would be torn up and started again.
It starts off by stating that NVG is to aid VFR night flight only but them glosses over the sort of things that can easily go wrong = winching, low level searching, unimproved sites, confined areas etc.
No rad alt setting procedures (because the bug isn't mandated), allowing pilots to fly with different generations of NVG in the same cockpit (who can see what the other can't?)
All in all rather amateurish and in no way an assurance that NVG ops are conducted safely or professionally in NZ.
As you might guess I might be the wrong man for the job
