I do not seem to recall any thread being started on Helitech 2022.... so I will 'follow myself' in reporting on the first day of the 2022 event. Normally there are people making plans to meet there, complaining that they could not land their personal helicopter on the external car park and that the number of hardware exhibits was expected to be down on last year. None of that.
Last year there appeared to be a small chance that the organisers could get their act together and bring something of a turnaround in the fortunes of Helitech Expo.
The marketing misrepresentations of last year continued and until a few weeks ago they were still promising 300 exhibitors and speakers that really were unaware that they had a speaking slot lined up. Those details got up some noses big time.
This year the 50/50 split between 'helicopters' and drones of the Drone X show degraded to around 80/20 in favour of unmanned.
A sorry tale.