We are nearly at 365 days and counting......
A Face book item highlighted by Linked In took my notice this morning.
If you are a thread jumper you may recall the row between Cambridgeshire based 'free' medico group Magpas and East Anglia AA when they moved the [BK117] aircraft to Cambridge Airport, the EAAA CEO leaving, them buying engines to prop up the deal with Sterling... Sterling dropping off the radar... and taking the 117s with them so that EAAA are now in Bolkows....
Good idea for a TV script I hink.... but no-one would believe it....
Anyway despite the row Magpas still exist and fly in the Cambridgeshire MD902 Explorer. That, it is said, has just a year to survive.
And yet this last weekend that same craft and its Magpas medics was over in Norfolk undertaking two 'out of hours' emergency medical flights - the first to take a trained doctor to a burned child. He may subsequently have travelled by land ambulance to Addenbrookes but how else would a doctor from Cambridge get to Norfolk in time? The second was a fatal accident where the survivor was treated to stabilise him and accompany the injured to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the regions specialist trauma centre.
Overall Magpas seem to be able to lick a finger and signify that they got 'one up' overall in the EAAA row but in a year this out of hours regional facility will go [and of course the police will lose their aircraft without replacemnent..]
OK so its one little element in the wider picture but downsizing overall seems to be just taken as what will happen regardless of the consequences.
It seems clear that there is no real pressure group built up within the pre-NPAS population to get the story out to push for more survivors in this massacre of officer safety equipment .... no pressures on the Police Federation to open their muted mouths in protest.... what a useless organisation that has always been..... and even the death rattle here in Rotorheads appears to be going no-where.
Very sad.
