wineboy,
perhaps you are forgetting that from about june to sept 2000 (my memory is a bit rough here) "the locals" did in fact provide a 24/7 IFR service due to a conflict in major aircraft servicing schedules of CareFlight and ChildFlight. And at very short notice.
And when you call them "locals" I think you forget that they are (were) part of the Lifesaver service, and thus had resource and capability access that a single machine set up could not hope to emulate without the resource issues that hammer headed mentions.