I am hoping that most of us here want this to work and work well. Those are the we.
The 70% is the typical level of Land SAR tasking that the MCA wants to believe will somehow go away. Bristow properly understand this stuff.
In the 2001 Provision and Coverage Report there was criticism of record-keeping because neither the MCA nor MoD-DASA reporting gave a full and satisfactory account of the SAR task in the UK.
The MCA did not differentiate between land, coastal and maritime. Why should they? Well, because different bodies have statutory responsibility for land and maritime, with coastal always being a bit of a fudge.
MoD-DASA reported as though the UK, Cyprus and the Falklands were all the same country. Not clever.
That prevents the data being properly compared and prevents it being merged to produce a complete picture of the UK Aero SAR workload.
When the update report was published in 2006, nothing had changed, and again there was criticism in the report.
When I last checked, nothing had changed.
This stuff has been sitting there on the MoD and MCA websites. Are they not embarrassed? Are they too thick to understand?
Hopefully, Bristow will say to the Coastguard, 'We can take care of that' and by 2017/18 we will actually know what we are paying for.
Last edited by jimf671; 27th Mar 2013 at 17:33.