Have-a-go-hero!!!
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From: longwayplace
Have-a-go-hero!!!
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sop's
SOP's are not law!
There are circumstances where we are even allowed to contradict air reg's. Saving life( one's self or others) falls into that.
Your employer may try to take action however, it may not stand up in a court of real law.
Anyone else correct me if I am wrong.
D.K
There are circumstances where we are even allowed to contradict air reg's. Saving life( one's self or others) falls into that.
Your employer may try to take action however, it may not stand up in a court of real law.
Anyone else correct me if I am wrong.
D.K
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From: longwayplace
How about the subsequent logbook entry??
Between take-off and landing, how should one account for the wee period spent free-fallling from the Captain's seat, doing the breast stroke and being the dope on the rope??
(Must be a hell of a view looking up at the bottom of one's own Dauphin (even if the pilot's door is hanging open!))
Let's say the commander had been single pilot in an auto-hover equipped machine, I wonder if................................
(Must be a hell of a view looking up at the bottom of one's own Dauphin (even if the pilot's door is hanging open!))
Let's say the commander had been single pilot in an auto-hover equipped machine, I wonder if................................
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Taylor handed the controls to Lt (JG) Strickland, and was then lowered into the sea
Bearing in mind that it's a media article, and they have been known to get it slightly wrong in the past 
Whilst the headline & the first line imply he jumped from the aircraft, the later narrative states :
"Taylor handed the controls to Lt (JG) Strickland, and was then lowered into the sea. "
I suspect that any pilot who's made command of a Coastguard Dauphin would be rational enough to have discussed the options available with his crew, and taken this as the best and most expeditious. Maybe he was/is the strongest swimmer? Only an aircraft mechanic and a Coastguardman in the back? For one or both of them to have operated the winch, with associated patter, and for the co pilot to have flown whilst the PIC acted as rescue swimmer
It strikes me they deserve a bit more than the unwarranted cynicism floating around here.
BZ, and I look forward to a more balanced report and assessment from the armchair critics.
Whilst the headline & the first line imply he jumped from the aircraft, the later narrative states :
"Taylor handed the controls to Lt (JG) Strickland, and was then lowered into the sea. "
I suspect that any pilot who's made command of a Coastguard Dauphin would be rational enough to have discussed the options available with his crew, and taken this as the best and most expeditious. Maybe he was/is the strongest swimmer? Only an aircraft mechanic and a Coastguardman in the back? For one or both of them to have operated the winch, with associated patter, and for the co pilot to have flown whilst the PIC acted as rescue swimmer
It strikes me they deserve a bit more than the unwarranted cynicism floating around here.BZ, and I look forward to a more balanced report and assessment from the armchair critics.
