Originally Posted by
RVDT
I see your problem - SARTIME mandated by Ops Manual / Regs.
The pilot still has to communicate his "SARTIME" so I would look at asking your tracking provider to integrate something into their front end. Don't think that it would be too difficult as most of them can handle text comms.
"SARTIME" in this day and age is a fairly archaic way of doing things. Being archaic myself and from the days of HF and SARTIMES which would be the end of the next day, that left a lot of area to look in.
Tracking systems at least will tell you where you ended up within about 2 minutes at least. You do have a tracking system right?
Correct - Ops manual / Commercial Contract required company sar times. - I've been looking into this on and off for the last 6 months, and been in contact with the multitude of different systems we use. None are interested and the normal we will look into it response.
All our helicopters are fitted with Satellite tracking with 1min tracking intervals so finding is not an issue.
The issue is every single aircraft multiple times a day, even for 1nm flights setting, Cancelling or forgetting a SAR Time.
Ideal solution would be an App the pilots can set their sar to server and the only input ops needs to have is if they dont cancel, or input, extend or cancel on behalf of a pilot operating beyond mobile phone coverage!.