There are threads within threads in all of this and it is often difficult to work out who is for and who is against. For instance I was not aware that the CC of Wiltshire was a little peeved. That might at least allow the post 2014 air ambulance to use the same current base at headquarters. Assuming that the fund raise is successful - and why shouldn't it be?
There are other air ambulances affected by these proposals - Devon for instance, with accommodation, pilotage and maintenance all locked into D&C Police HQ. - and that will take some chewing over.
You may have read somewhere that Magpas the 'Doctors on helicopters' group up in Cambridgeshire is fundraising around £1M. Of course they fly as air ambulance volunteers on the Cambridge police helicopter as well as East Anglia AA out of Wyton. They will stop flying with the AA in the New Year [replaced by a commercial arrangement based in London] and the police aircraft will probably go in a year or so. Very quietly in the background the CEO of Magpas is David Philpott.... now that is a familiar name.....
Threads within threads....