EASYSAR
 

PIN machine on the end of the line, SATCOM to check funds, hefty admin charge or alternately buy your SAR-H insurance policy - that'll sort out the funding deficit!

SAR H
 

Over the past 20 years i have had a good insight to SAR from RAF RN COASTGUARD and BOND whats wrong is while civi and mod are all spouting at each other whos the best whats the best, it would be much better if everyone got round the table and seen eye to eye.

1 proper helicopter
2 TRAINING

I would like to thanks all the sar crews for there work and indeed r131 for rescueing me in april

RAF founded SAR and has took it to a new level which we should be proud of and learn and help each other

Coastguard in shetland with the idea of the pumps in a container is the best idea i have seen

And the latest seaside rescue has shown the use of the hi-line with r193 which could be used better

Bond i was involved as a guy off the street with there training and they are starting to improve they need good training project

I would like to thank and praise all sar crews round the UK we have the bestin the world dont blow it

Full marks to CHC Stornoway, when a pump was needed the politics were put aside:

Newsroom - Press Releases

and here-

Lifeboat launched 21 Aug 09

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As I am supposed to be the expert, the blokes down the pub will be asking me what all the racket around the Bridge of Don area in Aberdeen was at around 2 o'clock this morning.
I initially thought it was a Sea King holding until the ARI was ready but it kept coming back again as if it was involved in a search.
An explanation would be nice to zip up the moaners.

This maybe:

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Search launched for missing man

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Thanks for that. Everything explained.

Oh yes we just love spending hours looking for 'vulnerable' missing persons:ugh: especially in the dark!

Question:

How does a helicopter search for a man, in a city, at night?

I have done cliff searches at night for said people, but in a city??????????????? How does THAT work?

Si

P.S. How does this relate to SARH going? Or am I being a spoilsport :E

How does a helicopter search for a man, in a city, at night?
 

Start with a "Square search" followed by "Creeping Lane Ahead"?:ok:

BigglesButler - I don't know the area but the 'Bridge of Don' sounds like the sort of coastal or waterway area more suited to the MCA and helicopter searching rather than the middle of a city:)

Unfortunately, as soon as there is any likelihood that the 'vulnerable' person may have entered or is likely to enter the water, the MCA get involved and then so do we.

You're not the only ones. It's even more fun when the mobile phone location is nowhere near where they are eventually found!

Yes, I was shocked to find out the other day that the phone companies charge the police for pinging mobiles and in some cases we are talking hundreds of pounds - hence a hard-up police force is less likely to ask for the ping!

Yes, and the results are not exactly brilliant. Usually something like "within a 1.5 mile radius of such and such mast". I found a company a few years ago who could pinpoint a phone down to 100m, but they needed the permission of the phone owner to do it.:ugh:

The Bridge of Don is coastal, with a bridge of the river Don - as it reaches the sea. It is also unfortunately (?) the largest surburb in Europe! Population of something over 22,000 and more houses than you should have to think about.

Having said that there are a number of large open areas - particularly along the coast - where a helicopter would be practical to use and most of the 22,000 would hear it!

I used to live on the said King Street, and know both areas of Aberdeen well. That would be a very difficult area to search by helicopter..... infact the crew would have been better going by the works Astra. Assuming the press have the search area correctly stated :)

...which they could have driven there in first gear all the way, with someone steering with their feet from the back seat, while the front seat passenger operated the pedals with their hands...:E

Will there be the chance for such close crew co-operation under SAR-H? I think we should be told...

Reminds me of the 'fifth and reverse only' challenge in driving the 78 Sherpa down south!

Torque..... that's called CRM training/flex :)

Isn't it also called "Night Wets"?

I Thirkell, You Thirkell, He Thirkells...:ok:

Agggh the 78 Sqn Sherpa. Now that is worthy of an entire thread all on its own! Title something like " Aircrew I have tried to kill - by a Sherpa"