On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 10:34:00 AM UTC-7, wrote:
My experience( limited) is that you can't teach the CAP much of anything. They know it all.
That said, it isn't surprising that they self promote which can help funding and enthusiasm for what is a volunteer group. I'm glad they are willing to try to help us.

We glider pilots had a good idea of where to search, but local CAP pilots were being directed to search pretty much the whole state, and our please for a more concentrated search failed. Late in the afternoon they finally let us join the search, but still not where we wanted to be. They finally called it a day and headed home, so we made a beeline for our assumed crash site and saw the wreckage on the first pass. Took several more passes to confirm the initial glimpse.

They really need learn to involve "subject matter experts". Soaring has very little in common with airplanes except for the takeoff and landing.

5Z