what advice would you give RMT unioin

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In my opinion hill walkers should have to take out insurance before they go hill walking which would then pay for the cost of mobilising mountain rescue teams and helicopters if required should they get lost or have a fall.
That might stop some people being inadequately dressed and prepared for hill walking in Scotland.

Once again your lack of knowledge and inability to properly research comes to the fore and shows you up.

Mountain Rescue teams are volunteers, funded by donation from people like me who value the service. I do actually have hill walking insurance but it doesn't cover helocopter call outs as these are free, provided by a publicly funded emergency service - the Coastguard.

Let's take your theory to the extreme and make people take out insurance for ambulance, fire service or police call outs. That might stop people phoning them when they need an ambulance because they've fallen and broken their leg or they need the fire service because their house is on fire or because they need the police to search for their lost children or elderly relative with Alzheimers who has wandered off.

Try thinking, reading and then forming an opinion; it's so much better than forming the opinion then arguing it's right when it very clearly isn't.

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Once again your lack of knowledge and inability to properly research comes to the fore and shows you up.

Mountain Rescue teams are volunteers, funded by donation from people like me who value the service. I do actually have hill walking insurance but it doesn't cover helocopter call outs as these are free, provided by a publicly funded emergency service - the Coastguard.

Let's take your theory to the extreme and make people take out insurance for ambulance, fire service or police call outs. That might stop people phoning them when they need an ambulance because they've fallen and broken their leg or they need the fire service because their house is on fire or because they need the police to search for their lost children or elderly relative with Alzheimers who has wandered off.

Try thinking, reading and then forming an opinion; it's so much better than forming the opinion then arguing it's right when it very clearly isn't.

Islay only said hill walkers need insurance. You've made up the rest.

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Islay only said hill walkers need insurance. You've made up the rest.

Islay says hill walkers should have insurance to cover possible MRT and helicopter call outs. I simply pointed out that the MRT is voluntary so costs nothing and that the helicopter is part of our publicly funded emergency services - Coastguard. I then extrapolated his assertion that hill walkers should carry insurance specifically to cover these costs by suggesting everyone should carry similar insurance in case they too needed publicly funded emergency services. Nothing made up there mate.

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Islay says hill walkers should have insurance to cover possible MRT and helicopter call outs. I simply pointed out that the MRT is voluntary so costs nothing and that the helicopter is part of our publicly funded emergency services - Coastguard. I then extrapolated his assertion that hill walkers should carry insurance specifically to cover these costs by suggesting everyone should carry similar insurance in case they too needed publicly funded emergency services. Nothing made up there mate.

My apologies. I should have been more precise and referenced my comments to the bit "let's take Islay's theory to the extreme."