Well, to answer your second point first you should have specified police work and not emergency services work. ( I was being particularly pedantic!)
For the first .
I do not think that the R44 has the payload to carry what we conside is our primary role equipment. the latest generation of cameras, and a pilot and two observers would challenge that and a lot of other light singles. Or do you believe we have our manning levels wrong as well?
Excuse me, I had to stop for brekkie...
Two other points quickly then, how is the robbo going to cope with our requirement to operate at night or when the cloudbase precludes1500 ft?
I take it that when you said you were interested in "more employment for pilots etc. " you meant as long as that employment was carried out on your terms. Because you are implying that using the current aircraft it is too expensive and that would seem to mean that you would like those existing pilots (ie me for one!) removed from their jobs...
Handy
