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    Google Earth

    I don't know if any of you saw Newsnight Scotland last night but the illustrious Vice Admiral Sir Alan Massey, head of the MCA has basically said that our coastguards are too be replaced by Google Earth! I've just been playing with google earth, if I type in the name of my village then I get 10 choices, the road to my village is apparently on the other side of the country and there are a few choices for my local district, none of which are local to me!

    If you guys haven't written to your MP's about this or filled in the consultation form then do so right now. Remember, it's your lives that all this is going to effect.
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    Re: Google Earth

    ermmm how will that work then?
    Google earth isnt live
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      Re: Google Earth

      + considering, well you would be reporting a position by range/bearing or more likely lat/long which is unique....

      But anyway, yes the recent government changes to coastguard cover, along with the discussions on all the tax breaks (or rather the potential removal of them) are not going to be good for us.
      ?Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn?t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.?

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        Re: Google Earth

        I can't see google earth calling for a helicopter.......
        I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.....

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          Re: Google Earth

          Originally posted by GuinnessMan
          I can't see google earth calling for a helicopter.......
          S'pose they could always use the flight simulator
          "We're not pirates, We're preemptive nautical salvage experts"

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          • #6
            Re: Google Earth

            Hope they have good folks for that then. I normally crash and that would look bad on national TV with their state of the art, brand spanking new CG helicopter crashing upon take off....
            I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.....

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            • #7
              Re: Google Earth

              changes to tax breaks - If they removed the seafearers earning deduction you could still be a uk non resident and not pay any income tax if you were happy to stay out the uk 275 days a year. (You can visit for 90 days a year and the arrival and deaparture dates aren't currently counted)
              Former TH cadet with experience of cruise ships, buoy tenders, research ships and oil tankers

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              • #8
                Re: Google Earth

                Hansard on this:
                http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... 2h0001.htm
                http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... 2h0002.htm

                have to search for Massey etc...
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