CASARA Sask is pleased to announce that on August 10th - 12th of 2007
Prince Albert will be hosting this years western regional SAREX or search and rescue exercise. The SAREX is high profile annual event within the Search and rescue community and is usually hosted by one of the four western Provinces or Territories. The SAREX brings together air search and rescue teams to hone their skills and techniques working within different geographic regions of
Canada. The SAREX involves setting up various search scenarios for each team which can range from searching and homing in on ELT's, to looking for missing persons, aircraft wreckage and various land and water targets both during the day and night. The 2007 Saskatchewan SAREX should see up to approximately 15 aircraft and their crews and possibly an American team from the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).
If you are interested in joining please contact the CASARA unit nearest you, which can be found on our website at www.casarasask.ca.
CASARA Sask is pleased to announce that on August 10th - 12th of 2007 
7 comments:
Having been fortunate to attend and participate in several SAREXes I hope all CASARA Saskatchewan members (and others with an interest in SAR) will plan to attend this event. I am sure that Prince Albert /Sask Zone 4 will offer an exciting/fun and rewarding SAR learning and skills building experience.
Rusty
Congrats on setting up Blog. Headsup PA planning committee.PA will also be hosting 07 National Pistol Championship Aug. 9-16 Block our rooms early. Frank mentioned CAP would be great to have them join us on SAREX. ND CAP has impressive inventory 6-C182 2-C172 count last time we met and swapped SAR stories.
Yeah, some of the CAP units are pretty impressive. Colorado owns its own 15 C-182's. Members get their own Private License, but everything else beyond that re: training, CAP pays for. Commercial, IFR, Multi, etc. CAP pays for all flying and maintenance but does not pay expenses for aircrew. So you'll find guys sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor of search headquarters and eating bag lunches. Colorado CAP has five full-time paid employees at its headquarters at Denver. Weird.
Perhaps we could show some northern hospitality and offer any attending CAP members lodging and chow at WC Sarex 07 covered by CASARA Sask.
Hi guys,
It's great to see a CASARA Blog. We are hoping to fly out from British Columbia for the SAREX. We might be towing "Wings Over Canada" for an episode taping. Wouldn't that be cool!
Us "moutain flyers" are looking forward to the nav challange.
Cheers,
Fred Carey,
Area Air Deputy
CASARA/PEP-Air
South Coast
Wow it is over... Just a few stats from the guy upstairs (Adrian Glasgow in OPS)
Saturday: 36 flights by 22 crews. 1 of those includes the media flight, and 2 of those crews were CAPs which leaves 19 operational crews (Search crews.) Only 1 flight had to scrub due to scheduling safety.
Sunday: 20 flights by 19 crews. (again 1 of those included a media flight and 2 of those crews were CAPS. This leaves 16 of these were operational crews (search crews)
This means a total of 56 flights managed by our OPS team over two days.
This does not include the night operations in which I was not personally involved in. I understand they had 6 flights... bringing our total to 62 flights total.
I would personally like to thank all of my OPS staff for making this a successful and safe weekend. I personally could not have survived without each and every one of you.
Thank you
Adrian Glasgow
Assistant SC (And Airside Dispatcher)
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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