At 05:07 PM 1/28/02, you wrote: >What if they had to answer a distress call in the middle of the run and it >took them outside their fuel boundaries.......What do you think, what's the >right thing to do in such a situation? The Captain is the sole judge of what is safe. A request for assistance must be judged based upon the circumstances. I have done both, accepted the call and turned the request down. As someone said, there is no point in creating another emergency by overextending yourself. By the way, we don't do rescue work for the victims. We do it for ourselves, because we feel compelled not to leave someone to die by themselves, in the cold, in the dark without hope. Capt. Mike Maurice Near Portland Oregon.