Agree with you 100% there IHL. The days of single engine VFR EMS/SAR are numbered and so are single pilot IFR EMS/SAR ops. Unfortunately a degree of 'macho' culture still exists here Downunder and we are slow to catch on to what is happening elsewhere. Hence the accident rate and the even higher 'near miss' rate.
[ 04 August 2001: Message edited by: Out of Balance ]