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I think the last post sums it up.
When Amy Johnson was flying, there were few or possibly no rescue services afforded to finding anyone who may possibly be in distress.
Today, we have an almost universal system of SAR made up of highly trained and genuinely dedicated people who regularly risk there lives looking for people who have had the misfortune to find themselves in peril, or alternatively idiots like this who flagrantly disregard common sense and will ineviatabley be a drain on the rescue services.
Of course it's a fine dividing line, an emergency is an emergency, but it annoys the crap out of me that those who set out on some half arsed mission to oblivion should put others at risk through their own ignorance, and not care a jot, when others who make genuine efforts to plan for every probable occurance are tarred with the same brush.