PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Police helicopter crashes onto Glasgow pub
Old 24th Dec 2013, 18:18
  #1417 (permalink)  
Munnyspinner
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Scotland
Posts: 280
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Police helicopter crashes onto Glasgow pub

Lemain, I am coming to the same conclusion. Except one has to accept that in some circumstances helicopters are useful. Medivac, probably justifies the use of a complex but versatile aircraft. Just about everything else could be done fixed wing or other modes - always accepting it would be much less convenient! Is there any reason that police cannot use a simple a/c like c337, with a steady cam pod? Or a drone ? If ordnance can be dropped on the Taliban by drones operated by pilots based in Cambridgeshire why do the police need three crew to be airborne? This was a tragic accident but maybe it is time to review what is necessary against what is simply desirable?
Munnyspinner is offline