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When carrying out a parallel track search pattern, the course of the search units should normally be which of the following?

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When carrying out a parallel track search pattern, the course of the search units should normally be which of the following?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Parallel track search (PS) patterns in SAR (Search and Rescue) • Effect of drift (current and wind) on search object and search units • Why search legs are aligned a certain way to maximize coverage across the drift

💭 Think About

• Think about how an object in the water moves over time with wind and current and how the search pattern should be arranged to keep crossing that expected path, not just follow it. • If the search object is drifting in a particular direction, which orientation of search legs will cause you to repeatedly ‘cut across’ that drift lane to increase chances of detection? • Visualize drawing the drift direction as an arrow on the chart. How should you draw your parallel search legs relative to that arrow to sweep the most new water each leg?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear on what parallel track search (PS) means: long, straight legs spaced evenly, used when the search area and datum are well defined. • Identify the line of anticipated drift on a mental chart and consider which option describes legs that cross that line over and over instead of running along it. • Verify which choice describes a course orientation that maximizes coverage across the drift path rather than merely along or against it.

Question 1 of 27070

When carrying out a parallel track search pattern, the course of the search units should normally be which of the following?

In the same direction as the anticipated drift

Downwind

Perpendicular to the line of anticipated drift

In the opposite direction of the anticipated drift

Question 1 / 2707066636eec28f7522a1c51c090

Question 1 of 2707066636eec28f7522a1c51c090

When carrying out a parallel track search pattern, the course of the search units should normally be which of the following?

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Question 1 of 27070

When carrying out a parallel track search pattern, the course of the search units should normally be which of the following?