Just popped back ( like I said I might ) to add :
"Interesting" figures indeed, especially as some of them are blatantly wrong !
Back in
January 2009 I posted "I know of at least one Air Support Unit that has a budget of 1400 Hrs.... "
(
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/357...ml#post4635442 )
... which was a reference to West Midlands - who budgeted for up to 1400 Hours a year and,
AFAIK,
continued with those hours up until joining NPAS,
not the 1200 Hrs reported in this FOI request !
I would also question the £££'s quoted - pre NPAS I seem to recall someone mentioning
that pre NPAS the budget for those 1400 Hrs was nearer £1.7m,
not £1.9m,
and I suspect that post NPAS it is probably now even higher than the figure quoted !
If so, then it would
not look, on paper, as though there is a £148,800 "saving" for an extra 200 Hours flying time
It would show an
increase of £50,000 ( and likely more ) for the SAME number of flying hours,
making the service to West Midlands
more expensive,
together with the more frequent lack of service during the Night shifts
when the a/c based at BHX is out of area servicing other forces that don't have a closer 24 hr Unit.
Makes me
!
