Police Air Operators Manual
Couple of questions on the above...
1. 5/3/1 Firearms are not to be discharged from the aircraft. Wouldn't an airborne sniper capability, a la the 14th in NI, be a useful capability?
2. 2/1/1 is well out of date! Not that our local police helo bothers to ask if he can infringe the ATZ.
3. 2/4/1: Pilots are required to know all normal checklists and emergency checklists (immeadiate actions) by heart. When I've flown before I've always seen commercial pilots read the checklists, they've been told not to do them from memory in case they miss something. Is this a helo thing?
4. The manual talks about Perf B aircraft, all the police aircraft I've seen are Perf A twins - are there any B/single engined ones (Islander maybe)? That would seem to be rather restrictive!
Any idea why there's so much seemingly irrelevant info? Surely a police pilot should know when to file a flight plan or how to transmit a mayday!
Cheers!