Civil Air Search And Rescue Association, Lethbridge Zone 1

SAR Awareness - CASARA Lethbridge Zone 1


Pilot Awareness

SAR Awareness is a CASARA outreach to promote and describe who and what CASARA is. The main message is geared to discussions with pilots and the general flying public to be prepared if a incident occurs. CASARA wants everyone to have the right tools and the right skills to survive a couple of nights out in the wild. The tools will help you get found and skills in proper use of the tools from a basic knowledge that may be the key to your survival.

The SAR Awareness Pilot Safety Campaign.

It's hard to know what to say when you first greet a new person. The Pilot Safety Campaign, provides an ice breaker to enter into a dialogue with a pilot and ask them about their safety practises. The 10 question survey is geared toward discovering just how prepared they are for a survival scenario. We record the results and also hand them the results so they have a paper reminder of things they may need to examine.

We also give them a Pilot Safety Kit, as shown in the header picture, as a gift for participating.

Survey Analysis:

1-10 out of 10. You are a prepared pilot.
3-8 out of 10. You are on the right track.
1-7 out of 10. You are on the right track.
3-4 out of 10. You are not prepared and need to give a serious look.
1-3 out of 10. You have gaps in your safety plan.


Lethbridge Air Show survey results: 18 pilots interviewed.

Survey conclusion: 94% of the pilots taking the survey scored a result of better than 50% prepared for an emergency.

Vulcan survey results: 16 pilots interviewed.

Survey conclusion: 69% of the pilots taking the survey scored a result of better than 50% prepared for an emergency.

Cardston survey results: 9 pilots interviewed.

Survey conclusion: 56% of the pilots taking the survey scored a result of better than 50% prepared for an emergency.


Our next training session will be in January. The one after that will be in June. You are more than welcome to visit us, anytime you like, to see if joining us is something you would like to do. Please check our calendar for our next SAREX.