CAP Preparing For Gustav, Maybe Hanna

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Civil Air Patrol members spent the weekend making preparations both to safeguard their assets and to respond to those in need after Hurricane Gustav makes landfall. And forecasters are now tracking Tropical Storm Hanna, which they say may follow Gustave to New Orleans. Both Southeast and Southwest wings of CAP were Friday ordered to initiate communications checks and update alert rosters, plus aircraft resource lists. CAP wings in Texas, Mississippi and Alabama were busy Friday relocating aircraft and vehicles, with Alabama organizing aircrew, ground crew and urban direction-finding teams from those members available for “a one- or two-week tour” (if necessary) following the storm’s landfall. CAP currently includes some 56,000 volunteer members nationwide and performs “90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center.” CAP is promoting National Preparedness Month (September) and the Ready Campaign Web site, Ready.gov.

Insurer AIG recently made proactive changes to its coverage in an effort to encourage aircraft owners to move their aircraft out of the path of powerful storms.

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