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Lost American Sailor Located
"Rick" wrote in message ... "Stanley Barthfarkle" wrote in message . net... I think the following article makes some good points. http://tinyurl.com/yadsck An excerpt: The Oregon National Guard flew helicopters in the searches for the climbers and James Kim and his family, lost in the Southern Oregon mountains after Thanksgiving. Brig. Gen. Mike Caldwell said it costs $2,890 an hour to fly a UH-60 Black Hawk, including fuel and maintenance, and $7,500 to fly the larger CH-47 Chinook. On Mount Hood, the Black Hawks flew 37 hours and the Chinooks flew 15. But nobody gets billed for that, Caldwell said. "From a practical standpoint, we're budgeted for those hours," he said. "Those flight hours would have been flown anyway in training. Instead we are able to get our people in a real-world environment." Which is why common sense should always prevail, and why less laws are a good thing, rather than more laws. If they were going to burn those hours anyway, this should be factored in. I'm for billing adventure seekers for rescues- I'm also for using common sense in doing so. Why not have the climbers - hikers buy an insurance policy before the climb. I am sure that thousands climb and hike without problems so the relative cost should be quite low. And if they rescue and don't charge it would be even lower. Somehow rescuers should not have to go into their own pocket because someone wants to climb in December and has limited vacation to wait for good weather. Agreed 100%. Personal responsibility. |
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