I agree with what you’re saying and I’ll add another point in your favour. At points, SAR teams have to make really difficult choices. Consider rescue operatio

I agree with what you’re saying and I’ll add another point in your favour. At points, SAR teams have to make really difficult choices. Consider rescue operations in mountain ranges. Search and rescue teams have to contend with the same kinds of conditions that often lead extremely experienced, skilled teams to disaster. Ground teams, for example, have to deal with avalanche risks. Air teams have to deal with constantly shifting weather patterns. There’s a point when they have to call off searches as it’s often not worth sacrificing their own lives to find people who went into ranges on their own volition, got lost, ran into bad weather or got diverted, stranded (or worse) due to avalanches. A drone based rescue operation takes that extra risk of death away. Programmatically though, that leads to all sorts of other problems. One sad fact of mountain ranges is that while most climbers practice excellent hygiene and etiquette, there are others who leave ropes, gear and debris behind. But combined with education on good disaster beacons and ways to make your team highly visible to computers, I think you’re onto something. This is an excellent idea and if I had solved the money problem, I’d take it and run. Alas, I haven’t so I hope someone else sees this idea and goes with it. It sounds like something that SAR communities would be interested in. Depending on how interested you are in a follow up, it might be worth putting this concept forward to groups like the Alpine Club of Canada or any of the communities where SAR technicians hang out. Good idea friend and I like how you articulated it!! Good luck!!!