Lynx ditching in Gulf exercise

[mickjoebill]

How reliable is a pilots assesment of an over water emergency likely to be? Am I correct that there are two choices of action, ie stay onboard and turn turtle or step outside and hope heli doesn't descend thrashing on top of crew?

Are there many instances where the pilot knows the aircraft will not make it to ship/shore and yet still has confidence that he has control for enough time to tip out crew and manouver to a safe distance away?



Mickjoebill

[wg13_dummy]

portwait, can you remind me what classification an incident signal is?

Nothing like scoring an own goal for the press.

[SilsoeSid]

dummy,

IT may all have changed since my time, but incident signals always used to be 'UNCLAS' which I was led to believe stood for unclassified.

SS

[wg13_dummy]

Well thats ok then SS, got a link for it on line?

[SilsoeSid]

Certainly old chum, anything to oblige;

Courtesy of the Britannia Royal Naval College

Under the heading 'Abbreviations'

'Defence Writing'

UNCLAS Unclassified

SS

[wg13_dummy]

Clever dick. I was refering to the incident signal as you well know.

[SilsoeSid]

dummy,

Don't be silly, that is not in the public domain and as you know full well, the press monitor sites such as this.

May I remind you of the red writing at the bottom of the page.

Hook line and sinker!!
Nearly the boat as well, but that was in the wrong place.

[wg13_dummy]

Tit.


Pointless.

[SilsoeSid]

Now that that is over;

Hopefully adding to the thread, ditching/floatation kits were discussed here with this piccy.



and also here