Originally Posted by
jimf671
The Coastguard have statutory responsibility for SAR below the high water mark and the routine location reference system is latitude and longitude.
The Police have statutory responsibility for SAR above the high water mark and the routine location reference system is the postcode.
Having spent the last ten years flying as a police air observer can I just say that we don't fly anywhere based on a postcode..?
Admittedly we tend to cover a small area compared to a SAR crew and the majority of it is done with a street atlas. However when called (fairly regularly) to go further afield we simply breakout the maps and navigate there..!!
The point is we actually do know how to use OS, Grid, Lat/Long... Whatever gets thrown at us.
Postcodes can be useful when using Skyforce... However only when navigating to a house.
We're more versatile than that thank you.