Twin Pilot NPAS Ops?
Could indeed be the way forward. Specifcally as in Scotland with force merger, crews can anticipate greatly increased operating ranges. Indeed this flight, I hear, spent part of its duration on a job in the old Lothian and Borders police patch, which it would not previously have been expected to do. Was this planned on the ground? Or a requirement added during the flight?
Is the expectation, in the new 'Police Scotland' era, of airborne asset ability to respond to no-notice in flight re-tasking to low level, night, urban, single pilot ops over unfamiliar territory enough to prompt a rethink?
No doubt some will say such an appeal would be a thinly veiled 'more jobs for more pilots' campaign. I'm not so sure.
This investigation may, or may not, feed into the debate.....