SB - it'll be a few more after last weekend but there is still another month to go.
Now I seem to remember in the early days of SARH when basing was being discussed, that the requirement was to be able to reach all high risk areas and most medium risk areas within 1 hour. The only way that makes any sense is for it to be 1 hour from receiving the call but it now seems that the MoD/Govt line is that it is 1 hour from take off which is very different.
Other emergency service response times are, as far as I know, taken from the time of the initial call so why should SAR helos be any different?
Is this a subtle moving of the goalposts to validate night-time closures or have MoD/govt just got it wrong?