UK Police helicopter budget cuts

[Coconutty]

It's gone very quite in here since the departure of the Schizo(s) !

Even had to resort to reading Brynn's paper to see if there's any news ()

According to PANews, "One force has trialled the new ‘central control room’ system already
and first reports are that the move has added ten minutes to the reaction time."

And that's just ONE force trialling it - if a centralised control room were responsible for receiving ALL requests for Air support throughout the Country,
and then arranging deployment ( as proposed ), I could imagine that the delay might increase even further.

The original NPAS plan was for xx% of the UK to receive Air support within 20 minutes
( apparantly based on actual flying times from the reduced number of bases, and not taking into account the time from REQUEST to LAUNCH ).

A map showing "10 minute circles" - appears to be a more realistic picture of how the switch to NPAS might affect coverage and response times.
( PANews - Any chance of putting a copy here ? )

Adding in this ( minimum ?? ) 10 minute delay from request to launch, leaves only 10 minutes for transit to scene

Anyone here have any more info on the trial ?

[PANews]

Blimey! Things must be quiet!

The map you speak of is on-line but unfortunatly I cannot easily access the url from the pc I am using. I hope to put it up later but it is of course on line at the 'other place' already [no advertising].

As you will see from its suggested coverage [based on the future bases as planned last October rather than current placings] some current areas of good coverage [Cambridgeshire and Sussex etc spring to mind] are clearly in 'no cover' spots.

The map

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10932568/Nat...p10minring.pub

[B.U.D.G.I.E]

any truth in the rumour the liverpool pilots have been given their notice ????

[J.A.F.O.]

PAN

Any chance of a URL that we can see? My computer downloads a pub file when I try clicking on your link and a pub file isn't half as interesting as it sounds.

[MightyGem]

any truth in the rumour the liverpool pilots have been given their notice ????

Yes, last week.

[PANews]

Sorry everyone, I had not noticed. I will leave the original in place and if you want you can use it to produce your own variations [if you have Publisher].

Meanwhile the URL I intended is the jpg version ..... bit fuzzy

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10932568/Nat...p10minring.jpg

and trhe PDF version

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10932568/Nat...p10minring.pdf

[J.A.F.O.]

Ta...........................

[B.U.D.G.I.E]

In the main it kind of makes sense..

[timex]

any truth in the rumour the liverpool pilots have been given their notice ????

Sorry to hear that guys, good luck on the job hunting.

[Thomas coupling]

MightyGem - r u moving to pastures greener?

I see John is going to be the CP for Cheshire....It will be good to see a shiney new 135 hovering over Liverpool in the future then!!!

[yme]

Anybody got any updates on the original theme?

[Art of flight]

Will the Cheshire aircraft have to fly left-hand orbits then

[standby standby]

Are we due any sort of statement from NPAS as to where they are along the long and windy road?

Or maybe it will take a few months for them to decide on how to do that as well!

[SilsoeSid]

Are we due any sort of statement from NPAS as to where they are along the long and windy road?

Bulldozers don't tend to do long and windy !


Just another day at the NPAS office

[tigerfish]

Steady On Silso

Steady on Silso. Don't be too critical of NPAS or you will be silenced! They do not allow dissent!

Tigerfish

[Art of flight]

Is that you starting work on your new base Sid?

[Art of flight]

It's a shame you cropped the picture off as we can't see which of your 2 aircraft you're towing onto the pad!

[Coconutty]

... new base ... ??

??

[Windsor Loft]

I thought South Wales helicopter had moved to St Athan from Cardiff Heliport?

[Brilliant Stuff]

Cracking Bulldozer, can I hire it.