Anyone else read this summers Helicopter Life Mag yet?
Interesting comment on the Rotary Operators Conference held at Battersea last month.
The conference were told;
The Met Police have three EC145s but at the moment one is in for deep maintenance and one of the other two is running low on hours, this is for many operators a normal situation.
On a daily basis the Met Police helicopter will be called for tasking sixty times of which twenty four will be fulfilled. Partly this is because some of the tasks are not suitable for a helicopter but other reasons include the weather, the limited number of helicopters and occasionally because of crewing issues (pilots running out of hours for example).
At the moment The Met Police are not signed up for NPAS, which is run from West Yorkshire. If they do however there will inevitably be inummerable changes to deal with on top of the daily issues.
Helicopter Life
Not signed up!!!
Only 5 months to get that little bombshell sorted then
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