Hope the pilot banged out and theyve picked him up.

In the old days of RAF SAR ops, the nearest SAR helo would be engines running within minutes of the pilot declaring an emergency and was going to bang out, if he had time to do that.
Not sure how the comms gets routed through USAF, or UKicon mil ATC, and with no RAF SAR anymore, and all civvie Coastguard, how much of a delay that all introduces?

Even at this time of year, the North Sea is bloody cold, even with all the lifepreserver stuff they have.