Since I've been part of NPAS I've had quite a few jobs where we have requested another aircraft whilst airborne. This provides a seamless handover with ground units and control rooms and means no loss of service due to fuel. It's also very easy to do as we are all on the same radio channels. That didn't happen before NPAS.
Yep got to agree with others on that one.
NPAS are simply reinventing the wheel.
My unit was part of a regional collaboration and it was very easy to get another a/c to come and take over a task..!!
All we did was shout up on TG for that a/c...
no need to go thru a centralised control room.
Of course because we had only short transit times, and being based where the demand was, we rarely had to do so..!
Very few jobs took more than 90 minutes to resolve.
Nowadays of course I hear 30/40 min transit times are common..
Drones...??
really..!!!
Fine until the wind gets up above 8kts..
or the job takes more than 11 minutes
or there's people and buildings around