[thorn bird]

For sure K,

I recall many, many years ago, sitting on the ground at Launceston Airport Aeroclub waiting for passengers. Word came through that an aircraft had ditched off Wilsons promentary and the pilot was in the water waving at a Folker circling overhead. the water was extremely cold, life expectancy limited in that environment. I was operating a piper Navajo, I had a life raft on board as part of our companies requirement for overwater flights. I called the SAR people to advise I was twenty minutes away and capable of dropping a life raft to the pilot in the water.

The rub was this particular chieftain in our fleet did not have a "supplement" in its flight manual to operate with the rear door removed to facilitate the dropping of the raft, all other Navajo's in our fleet had that supplement.

The sar people advised without that supplement I could not "legally" do the drop.

Haunts me to this day, I almost decided stuff it and went anyway, but I had a business to protect, and employees to consider.