Justintime - I didn't see it but I presume it was my name you were taking in vain. I didn't say the HF was the be all and end all - I said that in the 3A it is a much more user friendly system than the 3. Even so HF works a lot more often than it doesn't.
However, in the next year or so all RAF SAR Sea Kings should be fitted with satphone/sat tracker providing the trials are OK and the funding doesn't disappear. So then we will have Satphone AND HF!! The big difference is that our satphone/tracker will be compatible with the ARCCK system
