Who designates the SAR rescue coordination center?
SAR Coordinator
Who provides SARSAT position information to the RCC?
U.S. SARSAT Mission Center
What are the three SAR regions?
Inland, Maritime, and Overseas
How many hours must weather be updated to the SAR Mission Commander?
4 hours
Who coordinates comms in a SAR mission?
OSC
Who designates OSC in SAR?
SMC
What is the first point of distress called?
Datum
When more than one unit is in SAR area, what type of commander is needed?
OSC
What is the first thing an SMC does?
Establish Datum
What is the final area in a SAR?
MIN MAX
What factor is the most effective when doing a SAR?
Movement of contact
Who has geographic responsibility for overseas SAR?
Area Unified Commander
What are considerations for parachute SAR?
All of the above
When is an overdue aircraft on a VMC flight plan considered to be a probable SAR incident?
If comms cannot be established and it fails to arrive 30 minutes after its ETA
What are the two phases of an emergency for Navy submarines?
Event SUBMISS (initial search stage) and Event SUBSUNK (full scale search)
What emergency phase of a SAR incident exists whenever a craft or person is threatened by grave danger requiring immediate on-scene assistance?
Distress Phase
When is Computed-Aided Search Planning most useful and what agency provides it?
In cases too complex for manual search planning, specifically maritime cases with two or more searches or more than 24 hours of drift. CASP provided by USCG RCC.
When in positive control of an aircraft conducting a coordinated single unit radar search, how is the aircraft controlled to pass overhead the control unit on each leg of the ‘bowtie’?
‘Execute Crossleg’
