This is quite amazing in this era of communications.
Firstly why did the pilot press on. did he not have a PNR??, Why did the Chief pilot not enforce that requirment for his pilots, why did they not have a sat phone or a Hf radio. Our company is tracked by HF radio every 3 minsgiving Lat and Long wich is displayed back at our office on a computer overlayed on 250000 maps .I am truly amazed by this.
We had some flights booked but after the punters read the headlines "Chopper Missing" they cancelled
Lets all try and and follow the rules and put enough fuel in our helicopters and lift our game a bit.
PS TELSTRA has very good deals on sat phones go and look into it , it may save this costly and embrassing experience from happening again.
Rotor1
