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My advice, is focus on what interests you most, and expose yourself to the things you are inexperienced at. If you are coming in with a PCP Diploma you will be well prepared for SAR Tech training. If you find that you are very interested in advancing your knowledge and skills medically, then...

For the last couple years, there have been two spots "reserved" for civilian applicants. Civilians also compete for the remainder of the positions.

Are you active? Are you willing to spend some of your own money? Think about volunteering with your local CASARA (Civil Air Search and Rescue) organization. you will be exposed to flight as well as meet people involved in SAR. If you live near the mountains, take some mountaineering training...

http://www.joedrouin.com/Airborne-ARAC.htm did you try google? Gully

You know something I don't? not much longer in Geological Epochs maybe...

uncharacteristically direct from an Airforce General, timely. I hope the CF is allowed more opportunity to speak like this. I love the Buffalo. But she is like an old companion dog, way past her prime, and only around because I don't have the courage to take her out behind the barn. The crews...

skydive arizona's skyvan has a ramp and a static line, so will be able to provide good training, and free the buffalo, who's reliability is sliding quickly into the abyss, free to perform standby duties and crew based training. here's a video of the skydive arizona skyvan. easty to see why it is...

Watching the news the other day- the footage of the aftermath of an RCMP shooting showed BC paramedics using this technique- at least to my eyes. Anyone know if they are trialling this, or have adopted it for their...

"IMHO, his best bet would be to get the courses he needs to go Med Tech and join the Reg F and then see about taking college/university courses.  Then he won't have to worry about income."  You sound like a recruiter. if you join without taking the courses you want to in College, you will...

Not just the Griffons will be feeling the pinch, has anyone noticed the articles on Cormorant availability for SAR? Imagine adding another line of tasking for 2 months....

For anyone in the Edmonton area interested, there will be a briefing at the base theater on Monday, February 2 from 8-12. Staff from Canadian Forces school of search and Rescue will be there to answer questions in regards to joining the CF. For civilians interested in attending the brief...

As someone who works in the Buff and loves it, I can say, that the only reason I would prefer a new "tatonka" would be nostalgia. The old "she's good in the mountains" only rings true when we are working down low in them. Any time we are trying to get over them in a hurry, to render aid to...

It will be in the fall- end october? for the 2010 course. Why? You should not be timing your application, it can take quite a while to get thru the hoops. It is a continuing occupational transfer, meaning it is always taking files. ( please if you are an admin guru who is reading this, and know...

There are lots of crew based reasons for not having a sensor, there is a lot of talk about screen watching... I have been hearing briefings for several ( i have been in SAR for 7) years about a project to develop a sensor suite, however it seems that the rapid advance of technology is preventing...

I would even go furhter, "Get the Airforce what it needs, as long as it isn't so unique as to be unsupportable"

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent convenient instances of "queue jumping" our gracious US allies have allowed recently? I believe the US has selected the C27J to replace their sherpa?

Hang around morning brief @ 442 Sqn for a week, and you may be less cynical.  I don't care  about why, so long as it happens.

still tapping our toes, arms crossed, waiting for ANY announcement. just one more thing perogietion does to the armed forces......... I was so hoping this session would yield a firm timeline.

Does anyone know if there has been any talk about Canadians flying their own CASEVAC missions with this asset? Just as choppers decrease our risk going out of the wire, this would decrease risk coming home.

Without "dissing" pilots of cargo jets, the skill set required to fly SAR helicopter (low level, night vision ops, poor weather)  is markedly different from flying airways. It is a task saturated environment, and there really is no place for a crewmember to have to remember which airplane he's...