sg have pararescue?

• arball

  13 Feb 08, 19:30

  the usaf have their Pararescuemen, does we have our own equivilant?

• Short Ninja

  14 Feb 08, 12:50

  Good question.Dont think Singapore has or need to have one soon cuz how often does a pilot get shot down in a hostile territory/behind enemy lines in the RSAF?

• the Bear

  14 Feb 08, 13:04

  what the hell for?

• |-|05|

  14 Feb 08, 17:02

  Well we do have people who ride in choppers and then come down with a winch to rescue others. Those guys are specially trained too. I had a friend do that for awhile.And they also featured during the cable car accident.

  I guess that's as close as you get to Para rescue

• kopiosatu

  14 Feb 08, 17:17

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  what the hell for?

  x2 lol~

• martin_lim85

  14 Feb 08, 17:27

  the winchmen are either FE or ACS.

• Short Ninja

  14 Feb 08, 21:01

  Originally posted by |-|05|:

  Well we do have people who ride in choppers and then come down with a winch to rescue others. Those guys are specially trained too. I had a friend do that for awhile.And they also featured during the cable car accident.

  I guess that's as close as you get to Para rescue

  
  I was there too during the cable car accident....your Aircrewman friend name Bala?

• cairocks

  14 Feb 08, 21:08

  Singapore has a SAR responsibility within Singapore FIR(Flight Information Region) which is rather far out into the South China Sea. Had a friend that used to be a winchman or something of that nature. Told me other than military rescues, they also do cilivian emergency evacs of sailors from ships out  at sea. These cases usually are sailors falling ill, injuring themselves while at work or sometimes even injury from drunk fighting while out at sea.

  There is a map of Singapore's SRR (Search and rescue region) in pdf file below.

  http://www.caas.gov.sg/caasWeb/export/sites/caas/en/Regulations_And_Guidelines/Rules_and_Regulations/ATS/AIP/general/gen3/GEN3.6.pdf

   

• |-|05|

  15 Feb 08, 02:48

  Nope short ninja my friend was a chinese dude....cant remember his name haha havent spoken to him since 2002.