On Sep 19, 8:15 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
My son and I were active in Civil Air Patrol a couple of years ago.
The primary training mission was Search and Rescue, utilizing radio
direction finders that allowed us to find transponders that were going
off.

With the impending transition to 406 mhz transponders that will give
far more accurate location information upon activation, we will no
longer need fatigue-clad cadets trudging through the woods on SAR
missions.

CAP is a good organization for kids, basically "Boy Scouts With a
Mission". Given that Search and Rescue is their primary mission, I
wonder what's gonna happen to CAP?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The mission is certainly changing. Remember that S&R has always been
only one part of the CAP mission. CAP still has a very active cadet
program and aerospace education. Recently CAP has been doing a lot
more counter drug mission (looking for pot farms, etc) as well as
boarder patrol. The mission is evolving for sure. When I fly with CAP
90% of my missions are ROTC rides for the two local universities.

-Robert