Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
Even five a day brings in the “cry wolf” problem.
How do they know after six weeks of false alarms that the current one is real and someone is lying out in the freezing rain in their aircraft wreck.
That’s the serious problem I reckon.
Probably because they treat them all as real?
For example the amount of times I've been sent out homing beacons that have ended up being in a tip somewhere, or wandering around the field with the antenna only to find an accidental epirb trigger, far outweigh the number of "actual" callouts I've been on where people have been floating in the water or stuck in the bush.
So in my experience they don't exactly treat their SAR obligations lightly.