Fly for fun...
Really...! Is that where you want to go..
Ok theres a pilot in the room, let's talk about you... and sorry for intruding..!!
However before we do...
Thank you tigerfish for such a well observed post..!
Perhaps FFF needs to remember that the fleet of uk police a/c are there for one reason.. Police work.
I assume the name "fly for fun" means "not a professional pilot" and thus outside of police aviation. Otherwise he/she would realise the truth in tiger-fish's comments, in that the crews operate very much as a team. With only a few notable exceptions most pilots respect the TFO's skills and experience and vice versa. Several of my team have over 3000 hrs. When we've had serving mil pilots come visit us or give CRM, our way of working doesn't compute with them, and they can't get their heads round it. It's always been about mutual respect. We as cops respect our pilots skills, and sacrifices in most cases in doing what they do. Our pilots respect us cops because they know that we've got that overiding drive to lock up criminals.
We don't jump up and down complaining about whose train set it is.. !