Originally Posted by
ShotOne
Having landed at Barra in all sorts of weather I don't recall "radar cloud break from another aircraft" being an approved procedure. What could possibly go wrong?
Not as much as might have gone wrong in hover taxying back down the way we'd come from 50ft above sea level, guided by a search party of locals (who'd found the stricken wreck near the summit of Heaval) and guided us up the mountain by waving of jackets (theirs) but who'd now rightly left the scene - besides which, hover taxying up hill is marginally easier than down hill - and it was our job after all and at least it was day light. The casualty survived - just.