Patrolling the seas with the Air Corps

[jkennedyie]

"Tom MacSweeney, Marine Correspondent, reports on the day-to-day work of the Air Corps patrol on our coastlines"

Currently available here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/nationwide/index.html

Slightly more direct link:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0723/nationwide_av.html?2272192

[P.Doff]

Have to say it was a good article right up until the part were the fisherman said "I thought they were goin to throw down a rope(from the CASA)..but they flew around a couple of times and flew off".....end clip!!! Wait a minute REWIND!!! Now either it was edited arse-ways or yer man had something against the Air Corps cos in an article promoting the Air Corps it cast a shadow over us.
What he neglected to say (or the editor cut out) was that the CASA dropped rafts then went off to direct the rescue craft onto the scene and returned to provide "Top Cover"!!  
Anyhoo, besides that ,at least it shed some light on an aspect of the Air Corps that most people wouldnt know about. We dont just fly around the Don doing touch and go's, which is the extent that most members of the public would see of the Air Corps.
(By the way, the grain in the attached image is actually rain!!! No stopping tha CASA)

[xpih]

Quote (P.Doff @ 25 July 2007,20:19)

Have to say it was a good article right up until the part were the fisherman said "I thought they were goin to throw down a rope(from the CASA)..but they flew around a couple of times and flew off".....end clip!!! Wait a minute REWIND!!! Now either it was edited arse-ways or yer man had something against the Air Corps cos in an article promoting the Air Corps it cast a shadow over us. What he neglected to say (or the editor cut out) was that the CASA dropped rafts then went off to direct the rescue craft onto the scene and returned to provide "Top Cover"!!

Ah now, you're being a bit unfair. The fisherman in question prefixed his remark with "Not thinking straight and being very cold, ...". I dare say that after spending some considerable time in the Atlantic, watching an aircraft fly away from you (albeit as a necessary part of the operation) does become an imprinted image on your mind. The next words spoken are the narrator's who explains that the aircraft had spotted them, why it flew away and what it did next. There follows an as succinct an explanation of "top cover"  from the CASA pilot as you could hope to deliver in 30 seconds to a lay person (most of whom probably wouldn't even guess the role exists) with good air-to-air footage of an RN Sea King.

All in all, a very positive and good clip, I thought.

[Old Redeye]

Well done.