The Suffolk/Norfolk thing has been on the cards for at least 6 years, once budgets and legislation caught up with them it was just a matter of time, NPAS or not.
For the uninformed, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire AOUs have been doing ALL of Norfolks real night flying for the past 10 years so there's a fair degree of 'local' knowledge of Norfolk in the Suffolk crews and an excellent working relationship between the officers of Norfolk and the Suffolk AOU.
The P2+ can take around 90kg of extra fuel with normal crew on all but the more extreme summer afternoons.
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