No way I’d be sober enough to fly after a night in the woods with my broke-dick aircraft...
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Navy Dedicated SAR Squadrons
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Is a 5:1 ratio of pilots to aircraft, for aircraft requiring two pilots, typical in the Navy?
SAR units are outliers. Nominal Crew/Seat Ratio (CSR) in an operational Growler squadron is somewhere between 1.8-2.3 - probably similar for VFA.
I'd imagine it's driven by alert manning requirements.
That is what I remember for VS. As an aside. Airlines run about 3 crews or better per aircraft.
IIRC we had 50+ pilots in an HSL squadron with 12 aircraft in the early 2000s. I'm not 100% sure on that number of aircraft on the books but the number of pilots fluctuated between 50-60 while it was my JO job to write the flight schedule. Dunno what the official manning or equipment was supposed to be.
Part of the reasoning behind that was the manning document. I think East Coast was the same as West Coast and the manning was for 10 one-plane detachments, which requires 4 pilots. It's possible you may have been manned for 12 one-plane detachments, but that's what I can't remember. On the West side, everyone was 10 planes except -51 (which I think was 12) and eventually -37 when they became a pseudo-FDNF squadron, where I think they got 11...although that number is really hazy.
Saw this in the Washington Post, sad news...
In this case is it likely or certain the helicopter was from Whidbey Island?
In this case is it likely or certain the helicopter was from Whidbey Island?
Behold the power of reading!
I actually clicked the link for the USNPS presser and got my answer.
"The National Park Service’s exclusive use A-Star B3 helicopter, with Mount Rainier National Park climbing rangers aboard, conducted several aerial reconnaissance missions during the search."
There were three hikers missing on Rainier, all from separate parties/ incidents.
Sad but true.
Or from a hot muggy Florida swamp.
Hawaii