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Originally Posted by jonny_bass26

Hi all,


, was then assigned a pilot resuce mission just off Timor (within about a mile of the shore). So I mosied on over, parked myself on the exact spot of the "lifebuoy" icon and...nothing. Not a sausage. Used external camera to look around a bit, still nothing. My question is, roughly how big is the area I need to search? Put another way: how far might I be finding pilots from the on-map icon? And do your lookouts see them (and alert you) when you're close enough, or is it all manual searching?


Thanks in advance :-) one other thing - I've read elsewhere that downed pilots generate smoke to aid finding them, do you know if that still applies?

WELL IF IT LOOKS LIKE THIS GUY IN THE RAFT....ABANDON THE MISSION AND DIVE QUICK
https://whowhatwhy.org/2014/09/02/an-enduring-mystery-about-bush-41s-wwii-escape-from-death/
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE THERE WAS NO SMOKE; TOO DANGEROUS WITH ENEMY AIRCRAFT OVERHEAD...THE PILOT, LATER THE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH I,'HOOKED ONE ARM AROUND THE PERISCOPE' AND WAS DRAGGED TO A SAFER LOCATION.