Tipspeed you only need to look at the police pilot track record over there to assess for yourself where the problems lie! This isn't a job where you get free time to brush up on your piloting skills in between 'jobs'!! It's either there or goodbye. The job is extremely varied, ranging from chasing stolen cars to covert ops at night, high level, to HEMS, NVG, bad weather ops, mountain ops...blah blah blah...Where do you get a round peg to fit into this round hole? You got it...the military, wound up and ready to go. Why destabilise the whole issue by putting PC plod (ex, control room supervisor) through the £50,000 mill, only to find he can't fly a twin at night in deteriorating weather with a runaway up.
Unless of course you're winding us up.......
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