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Old 4th Jan 2003, 12:03
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Old Man Rotor
 
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Ggeeeeeeee..........how one forgets...????

I can remember doing SAR with an "Amada" of highly trained people in the foreground.......linked via VHF, HF, Sat and Data Link download..............come on get real............now I do the same from a remote base with VHF to 60 nms, then a hope and a pray to overhead a beacon, then hope its daylight before my fuel reach's critical [No C130's here].......and then get back home only to do the morning crewchange.............no evening news or green suit PR people pushing their case here.......[they were all in bed]

No its not sour grapes.........just that there is another tier of professionals [I hope], doing the same task..........with no fan fair..........

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