AWESOME
Hi Guys, i am a AUSSAR Trained Dropmaster working out of Perth. We were recently called to the big search off the coast of Esperence (Ciaguna is were we located the wreckage). We left thursday evening and got home sunday night.. We stayed in Esperence & Forrest and EVERYONE involved really deserved a congratulations for their efforts.
However AUSSAR did a FANTASTIC Job, Nothing was missed, from fuel for both the Craft & Personnel to our accomodation and phone calls to family members. The work that they put in was huge. We were the only Drop Capable & Ready Aircraft in the search and were carrying PADS units with liferafts & 2 heliboxes.
We also droped SAR DATUM Boues so that AUSSAR could track the drift and calcualte proper Search Areas. Nothing was to much for AUSSAR, they had JET A 1 trucked into Ciaguna for the Chopper & also for a few Turbine Aircraft (one poor fellow from Adl had to fully fuel a Conquest with a Hand Pump :-) NOT HAPPY JAN :-) ) But yeah the work that AUSSAR do is incrediable.
It really opened my eyes to what it is like out their and the importance of proper preperation.
See Ya Guys