Its starting to appear on this thread that SAR is a bit like the church.... After a while it has little to do with God.
Maybe we shouldnt forget who the real customer is in all this... (a) the person in need of the helo. and (b) the person paying for it. The tax paying public and the Goverment needs to be able to stand over how it spends those funds.
It is quite amazing that the UK Air ambulances have to go around begging with buckets while the SAR bases have TWO aircraft AND in some cases full back up crew. Worse still in Ireland we dont have any Air Ambulances at all. Our role is important but lets not lose sight of the big picture just so we can stick our chest out.
Last edited by Decks; 24th Apr 2006 at 07:22.