It's gone very quite in here since the departure of the Schizo(s) !
Even had to resort to reading Brynn's paper to see if there's any news
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According to PANews, "One force has trialled the new ‘central control room’ system already
and first reports are that the move has added ten minutes to the reaction time."
And that's just ONE force trialling it - if a centralised control room were responsible for receiving ALL requests for Air support throughout the Country,
and then arranging deployment ( as proposed ), I could imagine that the delay might increase even further.
The original NPAS plan was for xx% of the UK to receive Air support within 20 minutes
( apparantly based on actual flying times from the reduced number of bases, and not taking into account the time from REQUEST to LAUNCH ).
A map showing "10 minute circles" - appears to be a more realistic picture of how the switch to NPAS might affect coverage and response times.
( PANews - Any chance of putting a copy here ? )
Adding in this ( minimum ?? ) 10 minute delay from request to launch, leaves only 10 minutes for transit to scene
Anyone here have any more info on the trial ?
