Hotel 179 wrote:
"Newps" wrote in message
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Here in Montana we don't really let CAP do search and rescue. The Montana
Aeronautics Division along with the Montana Pilots Assoc handles the
search and rescue duties when needed.


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How is the alerting routed to the pilot's association?
At CAP, it comes
from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley. Other places
handle "Search and Rescue" or "Search and Locate" without CAP involvement.

Montana Aeronautics gets the call when the RCC decides to initiate SAR.
The RCC is not the only one to initiate it either, just one of
several.


What type of ground team coordination do you have in Montana? We always say
that we can search, but someone on the ground has to rescue. I flew a
mission last Thursday where the ground team was the local Sheriff's Deputies
and members of the volunteer fire department. CAP has adopted an Incident
Command response and multi-agency missions has become the norm.

It's all handled thru Montana Aeronautics. They will figure out who
best to handle the ground stuff. It may be the local sherriff, it may
be other SAR qualified pilots working on the ground. It depends on
where the wreck is believed to be. We have some pretty remote country
here, both in the mounatins and in the plains.