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Old November 2nd 05, 08:27 PM
Guy Elden Jr
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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!

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Guy

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Old November 2nd 05, 09:08 PM
Steven P. McNicoll
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"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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Old November 2nd 05, 10:24 PM
Ron Natalie
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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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Old November 2nd 05, 11:53 PM
Ron Garret
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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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