We have now surpassed 600 members on InternetSAR.org. At this rate we could pass 800 members before tomorrow.

I also just completed an interview with "General Aviation News" so that should bring a lot more aviation types into our ranks over the coming days. This is a very good development.

Professional imagery analysts wanted
The amount of reports that need to be evaluated is rapidly growing. As dedicated as our core group of report evaluators are, I don't think they will be able to keep up with the flood of reports we will be getting as our membership grows. If you are a professional imagery analyst (retired or active, military or civilian) and would be willing to volunteer your skills to help evaluate imagery reports please contact me with your background and qualifications.

At this moment in time we have around two dozen reports to be evaluated for the Ron Boychuk search and two dozen reports to be evaluated for the Steve Fossett search. This number seems to be holding steady, which means evaluations are keeping up with reports, but as our numbers grow we will start to lose ground without more evaluators.

I also want to make sure that we have enough evaluators that no one gets burned out from having evaluated too many reports.

Please do not contact search teams directly on our behalf to get information
I know that there is a really great desire to get factual information. BUT PLEASE do not go to search teams on your own. We need to keep all requests for information through established channels so that we don't become a hindrance to search operations. I have one point of contact with the Boychuk search team for imagery related issues and we are establishing a SINGLE point of contact to be our official liaison with the the Boychuk search team for all other information requests. This individual knows people on the official Boychuk team personally and has decades of experience with SAR.

If these efforts are to be successful and we are to be an aid to search efforts we must work in an organized fashion. This includes who makes contact with search teams.

What we are doing could change SAR forever as long as we don't overwhelm SAR teams with our enthusiasm.