Is the NPAS Control room involved in Wales at all?
I threw down the rune stones and reckon that the offer of a fixed wing, the coordination of 2 helicopters on site, mutual aid to cover for the ac on task, as well as mutual aid cover for the rest of Wales if required, was made with 2 phone calls taking 3 minutes, without it.
You could say that we are seeing true borderless tasking, without the regional borders, at an international level, with absolutely no NPAS involvement.
Seems a bit much to spend £1.6 mill on a national control room, when we can see this complicated use of police air assets organised in the maximum time allowed for song in the Eurovision Song Contest, by those on the shop floor who actually know what is needed and how to achieve it.
To put this 'quiet' control room into context, it costs £1.6 mill to run a 20 hr air support unit.
Time to put the stones away
