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November 2nd 05, 08:27 PM
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New FSS Policy
Sounds good to me. Much easier for them to make a phone call than to
scramble a CAP flight for a pilot who simply forgot to close a VFR flight plan. Seems like this private industry thing might actually be able to control costs - who woulda thunk it!  -- Guy 
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November 2nd 05, 09:08 PM
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New FSS Policy
"Guy Elden Jr" wrote in message oups.com... Sounds good to me. Much easier for them to make a phone call than to scramble a CAP flight for a pilot who simply forgot to close a VFR flight plan. Seems like this private industry thing might actually be able to control costs - who woulda thunk it! The new policy isn't making a phone call instead of scrambling a CAP flight, it's calling at or before the ETA instead of beginning a search after the ETA. The first step in the search was always a phone call.
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#3
November 2nd 05, 10:24 PM
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New FSS Policy
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Guy Elden Jr" wrote in message oups.com... Sounds good to me. Much easier for them to make a phone call than to scramble a CAP flight for a pilot who simply forgot to close a VFR flight plan. Seems like this private industry thing might actually be able to control costs - who woulda thunk it! The new policy isn't making a phone call instead of scrambling a CAP flight, it's calling at or before the ETA instead of beginning a search after the ETA. The first step in the search was always a phone call. Yep, it was 30 minutes of grace period and then 30 minutes of hunting around and sending ALNOTs before you ever got anywhere near a real SAR response.
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#4
November 2nd 05, 11:53 PM
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New FSS Policy
In article t,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote: "Guy Elden Jr" wrote in message oups.com... Sounds good to me. Much easier for them to make a phone call than to scramble a CAP flight for a pilot who simply forgot to close a VFR flight plan. Seems like this private industry thing might actually be able to control costs - who woulda thunk it! The new policy isn't making a phone call instead of scrambling a CAP flight, it's calling at or before the ETA instead of beginning a search after the ETA. The first step in the search was always a phone call. Calling before scrambling makes sense, but calling before the ETA does not. One would *expect* that before the ETA the plane would not yet have arrived, so calling before the ETA and learning that it has in fact not yet arrived seems like a waste of effort to me. rg
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