19 Wing Training

You may get a chance to see the to see the Royal Canadian Air Force at work

Aircraft and crew from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron based at 19 Wing

Comox will be conducting training exercises over the next couple weeks.

People in the Victoria Search and Rescue Region (SRR), which includes the

entire province, may hear a Cormorant helicopter flying overhead, and see

Search and Rescue (SAR) Technicians parachuting, conducting hoists from

the helicopter and landing in remote areas.

All training will be constrained to remote or uninhabited areas where no

specific training areas exist or over open bodies of water.

While training is underway, normal SAR readiness will be maintained at 19

Wing Comox with a separate and dedicated crew.

This exercise, SAR SUMMIT 22, will see four crews take turns responding to

ten emergency scenarios over four days each. The training scenarios are

designed to be realistic. However, due to the remote location of the training

sites, most activity is unlikely to be seen by the public except when aircraft

are transiting back to the airport.

If you happen to come upon a training scenario on land, you're welcome to

watch but the RCAF asks you keep back at least 100 metres. Boaters

observing a water-based training scenario are being asked to keep back at

least 400 metres.

The training exercise is running now through to August 26th.