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SASless said:
Our Police forces also generally promote Police Officers from the Squad Car to the Helicopter job....thus they have experienced Police Officers but in-experienced Pilots. Perhaps that is why the Single Engine helicopter is so common...along with the cost issue.
So might that be why:
New York City clear across to Los Angeles my country is populated with dozens and dozens of Police Helicopter Operations and almost all use Single Engined Helicopters exclusively for Day and Night flying.
So the vast majority of UK Police pilots will likely be more experienced than many US police pilots, and also likely to have significant twin experience on military operations?
Is that a fair summary?
Despite experience being no guarantee of competence, the Fixed Wing world in the US has specific, and considerable, requirements for it does it not? Why doesn't the Rotary Wing industry demand similar?