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Crew safety training is an important part of SRU SAR training and is covered quite comprehensibly in the SAR Manual for SAR unit Pilots and Dropmasters. Dropping heights are typically 150AMSL for PADS and 200AMSL for SRS. Search heights are normally flown between 500 and 1500 AMSL/AGL depending on the target.
Pool training and liferaft use was part of the training for aircrew but I believe that this is no longer the case.
Airborne Observers are normally provided by SES and are sometimes trained in house by local instructors based on the AusSAR syllabus. Ideally, each search aircraft will have one rated Observer Leader to supervise up to 4 or 5 Observers depending on the availability, task or aircraft type.
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