Met Police recruiting again!!

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Met police pilots

I see the Met Police have an ad for pilots in todays FI. £50k a year and the chance to sit around ppruning all day ! Hey SilsoeSid - have you retired then??

[Fortyodd]

I think you'll find that should read "more helicopter Pilots".

[Droopy]

The ad reads "...changes in the way air support is provided has led to the requirement for helicopter pilots from mid August..."

So who flew them before, the hangar cat?

[jayteeto]

If you get more helicopters, dont you normally need more pilots?

[Droopy]

Have they put down their deposit on the 145 yet?

[Thomas coupling]

3 x 145's........................

[SASless]

Do they hire broken down old Redneck po-leece from the States?

[What Limits]

Q1. Have you got a pulse?
Q2. Have you got a UK/JAR Licence?

Right. you're in then!

[SASless]

Yes....on both counts...bi-lingual too...English and American.

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

and also you need...

2000TT
355 rating + IR
500 twin
500VMC low level
100 night

+ police experience an advantage...er...that counts me out then !

Text PILOT to 84118 to sign up !!

( and you must promise not to end up like TC ! )

[Hummingfrog]

I have 500hrs IFR low level as well

But there again I couldn't accept the 40% pay cut

HF

[SASless]

I knew there was a trick....355 rating....dug around in me bag....and that was about the only one I didn't have....drats! If the Met is like my old polis place...that makes sense....we had to have five years as a foot patrolman to be considered a pilot slot....never mind the 2500 hours I had in '72 and being a current Territorial Pilot flying more sophisticated aircraft than the one being operated by the Polis.

[Thomas coupling]

i read it as the 355 and IR as optional extras?

I'll ask Brian when I see him next month why he's paying so little

[aeromys]

If they're getting six helis, they might might now get to keep TWO of them in the sky at once

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

TC is right - I read it again and it appears that the 355 rating and the IR are not required to apply. Go for it SASless - the Met could do with someone decent working for them - then you too can keep me awake at 3 in the morning looking for poxy car thieves outside my window !

[SASless]

Oh, right....I can see it now....pilot of Met Po-leece chopper on the radio....."Hey ya'll, the rascal you'uns is looking fer...is a hidin' unnerneaf the dumpster over yonder by the burger joint! Open up a great big ol' can of Whoop Ass when you get ahold of him!"

Somehow...I just don't reckon that would fly!

[Thud_and_Blunder]

Actually, SASless, I understood more of what you just said than I would if I was hovering over the Isle of Dogs listening to fluent Estuarine...

In Brum, even the bobbies had to pause before replying to any Black Country PC, just to make sure they'd interpreted everything correctly. As for Coventry; just make sure you use words of half-a-syllable or less!

(Completely unfair of course, but why let the truth get in the way of an old dit)

[ossie_lation]

The only police experience I have is a speeding fine on the M6 years ago. Does that count?

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

oh, and SASless, you will not get a gun - so that's you out then?

[FloaterNorthWest]

Just got the application pack and no mention of 355 rating nor IR just the basic hour requirements.

Guess they may help but if you have the hours why not apply, there is a shortage of the right pilots at the moment.

FNW