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Why don't you do something positive? How about you swallow a little pride, ask one of these nice police pilots if you can vist their unit and spend a few hours actually doing some first-hand fact-finding?
You may even learn something new.
I'm a professional, or at least I try to be. My best advice to any other pilot is to follow what a respected instructor taught me long ago. Thus, the day I think I know it all and have seen everything I shall quit flying.
Incidentally, I think you'll find that civil certification standards are far more stringent than a 1 in 100,000 probability of failure. Please do not make fatuous comments about the number of 'acceptable' casualties. The only casualty rate acceptable is Nil. That's what we should all be working to. I don't believe the standpoint of the regulatory bodies is any different because of the job the police or civil SAR units do: it is still classified as Commercial Air Transport, just the same as BA, easyJet etc etc.
[This message has been edited by Multp (edited 14 May 2001).]