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Old 28th Sep 2012, 05:38
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This also raises the issue of co-ordination - some areas of UK have very good relationships between SAR, the ARCCK and Air Ambulances - some do not and it is not unusual to end up with 2 or more air assets going to the same job. That is just about manageable in daylight - although centralised tasking would be the way forward when the ARRCK moves to the MOCC at Fareham - it could be far more dangerous at night.

The night low flying region extends to 2000' in some of the areas the Midlands AA operates in - are they just going to rely on see and avoid or hope that TCAS saves them? They need a way to plug in to the military low flying system or the ability to request a TDA from the ARCCK.
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