Originally Posted by
tu154
I know one of coxwains of a Scottish lifeboat, he would agree with your statement today Crab. Crews go where the coastguard tell them their part of the search area is.
Unfortunately the program HMCG use is massively linked to senior management as an ego project and has no chance of being improved until they move on - as is the case of many things in the MCA, including aviation.
Granted that generating a search area isn’t an easy thing to do, but it could be very much better than it is currently.
I don’t know if the Irish coastguard use the same system.