Covec
Sometimes that SAR jet, however goes flying to meet other tasks - but that jet and its crew will then hold "airborne" SAR for the duration of the sortie.
Billy No-Jets ; wrote this on the Kinloss whats going on thread back in March
Crews are not really current, as said there is seldom a SAR jet available and when a sortie does go the crew make a pretence at holding 'airborne SAR' - only effective if the incident is within about 200 miles of your area and within the first 3 hours of your sortie. God help us with another Piper Alpha!!
Have things changed since then ???