Jim, the remark about training hours was meant to be tongue in cheek - maybe I should have use a smiley.
No, DASA didn't publish training hours since we always had so many available it wasn't an issue.
Now that training is limited and all the stats are available, why shouldn't they also be in the public domain?
There are a contracted number of training hours for the new SAR service so it would be useful to know if they are being exceeded (because the crews need the training) and, if so, who is paying for them.