| KenBarbalace |
| (Searcher) |
| 12/26/07 06:25 PM |
Re: InternetSAR.org: Search for Ron Boychuk
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Ken,
I know that you are working on getting imagery and appreciate your aforementioned comments.
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However, as an old aviator with 40 years of experience, my feeling is that if Boychuk’s last reported position was at Spense Bridge, then in all probability he continued flying west toward his destination. When a pilot reports a position like that with no other comments, it means that “I am at Spense Bridge proceeding on my original flight path and expect to complete my flight on time without incident.” If he was required to turn around due to weather or mechanical problem, there would be more evidence to that effect.
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The image priority should be west of his last know position.
We will always make the highest probability imagery that we have the priority for review. Right now the imagery we are working with is the highest probability imagery we have access to. Cuddly Bear is working with our contact to see if we can get higher probability imagery to the west of Salmon Arm/Suspense Bridge. But keep in mind we must also make sure we are getting imagery based on the best info the Boychuk SAR team has not necessarily what the media is reporting. All too often media reports are wrong or inaccurate.
I have asked Fishcat to work with others to track down the best available information and to work on separating fact from rumor. We must make sure that if we do request new imagery and change our imagery priorities that this is based on known facts not rumors.
I'm so busy trying to program the stuff we need to make InternetSAR.org work that I really don't have any time to do the fact checking myself, which is why I have asked Fishcat to take the lead on this. Until this past weekend I didn't even know for sure if we were actually going to be getting imagery for the Boychuk search and I didn't start to learn what areas were covered by the imagery until I started playing with it and made it live on InternetSAR.org on the 24th.