Presstransdown - I would suggest that my comments are representative of the military SAR world ie 8 flights around UK but maybe not your world (3 flights).
Once again I have to explain that in this Gazelle crash the outcome was very satisfactory but not due to planning or following procedure and that had there been any other complications (the pilot turns out to have had worse injuries than first appeared but he couldn't have been given the option to be stretchered to hospital because the asset on scene can't carry 2 stretchers at once) the outcome could have been different since the ARCC was only involved late on.
Press- how many searches have you had to do after dark even though the casualty went missing in the middle of the day? The same mentality that prevents people asking for a SAR aircraft straight away when we might have a chance of saving them is the mindset I am trying to fight against.
Proper coordination of airborne assets in UK is essential - so far we have been lucky.