Originally Posted by
Evil Twin
Then your frame of reference is skewed. If you have worked on SAR you KNOW what works. Your UAV capabilities may well have made a huge leap at this point however, you still don't know whether it would be as efficient or as capable at finding the missing person. Even if you did, as the point has been made, you will still have to call in a real helicopter and flight crew to get the job finished. I have worked in conjunction with drones and I can see benefits and a great many limitations, still a very long way from replacing a SAR helicopter and crew.
Errr... Which is the whole point of having the trial...?
I apologise for calling people Luddites.
However there does tend to be a marked reluctance by posters here to accept that there just might be better ways of doing things...