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Old 13th Apr 2017, 23:17
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As I tried to say earlier, in my view it points to the flawed culture in SAR of always trying to get low / VFR as soon as possible. In my experience SAR pilots are far happier flying around at 200' VFR below cloud in the crud, rather than being at MSA IFR in cloud. Of course getting "down and dirty" asap can sometimes be the right thing to do, but not always. It surely can't be right to need to descend to 200' so far from the destination during an instrument letdown.
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