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NPAS News 2023
Looks like the fixed wing persons from Leeds have had a busy afternoon (pics attached) :ok:
Since being informed about POLW being out and about, (I seem to be the family reporting centre), I've cooked and had a roast chicken dinner, loaded the dishwasher, cup of tea and walked it all off. Glad not to have increased on my Chipmunk hours and gone the fixed wing route, my bladder caption was always set at 2hrs max, so 4+ would be quite a challenge 🤣 What surprises me most though is what is going on to have such commitment to an area for such a long time... on a Sunday? Times have changed! On another note, has anyone else read Dave Howell's book 'Speak Up, Listen Down'? https://tinyurl.com/2k9ec5wm A very good read and a wonderful insight into one of the many amazing paths taken by one of the many good people in the organisation that I had the fortune and pleasure to work with. Not giving any spoilers, but anyone that ever had a ticket on the naughty bus to Wakefield will relate to the choice of title and certain chapters.;) https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....722ad02e0e.png https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a02d32d62e.png |
Originally Posted by SilsoeSid
(Post 11391998)
Looks like the fixed wing persons from Leeds have had a busy afternoon (pics attached) :ok:
Since being informed about POLW being out and about, (I seem to be the family reporting centre), I've cooked and had a roast chicken dinner, loaded the dishwasher, cup of tea and walked it all off. Glad not to have increased on my Chipmunk hours and gone the fixed wing route, my bladder caption was always set at 2hrs max, so 4+ would be quite a challenge 🤣 What surprises me most though is what is going on to have such commitment to an area for such a long time... on a Sunday? Times have changed! On another note, has anyone else read Dave Howell's book 'Speak Up, Listen Down'? https://tinyurl.com/2k9ec5wm A very good read and a wonderful insight into one of the many amazing paths taken by one of the many good people in the organisation that I had the fortune and pleasure to work with. Not giving any spoilers, but anyone that ever had a ticket on the naughty bus to Wakefield will relate to the choice of title and certain chapters.;) https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....722ad02e0e.png https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a02d32d62e.png |
Originally Posted by hoistop
(Post 11392235)
I am surprised that these tracks are in public domain. It should not be, as circles are very revealing. It is not so difficult to remove them from the eyes of the public. Why was this not done yet?
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Thumbs up from me regarding "Speak up, Listen Down" I suspect there may have been a couple of chapters that didn't make the final edition :ok:
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Maybe they were just looking for an airfield with AVGAS...
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"Maybe they were just looking for an airfield with AVGAS..."
....that was open. :E:E:E |
Originally Posted by hoistop
(Post 11392235)
I am surprised that these tracks are in public domain. It should not be, as circles are very revealing. It is not so difficult to remove them from the eyes of the public. Why was this not done yet?
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After similar comments were made a few years ago, NPAS rotary were removed from FlightRadar24. I guess with all the other sites available it would be a Canutian task to have all assets removed from all sites.
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ADSB off
Not so hard
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....feb53ea816.jpg my two 145’s have a mod to allow the disabling of ADSB. You have to be law enforcement to get the mod done and cough up the ££££. soft button in Garmin and annunciator on panel plus some greenie wizardry |
Many thanks to NPAS Redhill for helping us out yesterday with a power pack when the mighty Lynx battery had given up after a day of filming work.
Our own red starter box had given up too and we were 15 mins away from Redhill closing. Fortunately we were parked for refuel very close to the NPAS hangar and they came to our rescue. Thanks guys:ok: |
Availability for searching (deceased) police student
Do not know the ins and outs of the tragic death of a budding police officer but initially when he went missing, supposedly the force told his family that 'They also say they were told it was 'too dark' to carry out a search due to wild animals living in the woods. But the family imply the force refused to scramble air support in the search
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...olleagues.html Bearing in mind NPAS hq is at Wakefield, one guesses, that the any available a/c and crew were not readily around or the nearest one from way away. tragic RIP young lad |
Don't ignore the source of that piece - the Daily Mail - not known for accurate and unbiased reporting. Sad loss of life whatever the cause.
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As above…
Bad reporting on many levels. Nothing is the fault of the family, but of the media wanting a better, more gripping story, in the belief they will be helping the family for the future case review. The family were told they would not be able to look for Anugrah themselves (By who? Would anyone NOT go out and look for a relative especially if their car had been found!) and say officers were 'slow to initially respond to reports that Anugrah was missing' and that they wasted time before entering the woods where his car was located. (who told them what wasn’t going on in the background?) 'Eventually one officer and a single dog, hardly a squad, arrived at around 2am,' they said. (One dog person & dog is more effective than a squad of 20) 'The initial call from us was made at 11pm. There was just no sense of urgency even though we as a family were obviously frantic and GMP themselves had identified Anugrah as being high risk.' (Remaining calm in a crisis is one of the many qualities of policing, again, the family wouldn’t know what is going on in the background and the agencies involved) They also say they were told it was 'too dark' to carry out a search due to wild animals living in the woods. (1. Who told them that? 2. It probably would be without a dog person & dog. 3. The undergrowth can restrict movement even in the best of conditions 4. The dog would scare away wild animals, whereas mispers generally wouldn’t be… so who told them that? Bet it wasn’t an official) 'The contempt with which we were treated is sickening', they added. (!) The family say that police refused to send a helicopter out to search for him. (Source? I find this extremely hard to believe especially when the car had been located, at night near to a dense wood and he was one of their own. There is a massive difference between refusing and not being able to deploy an aircraft. We were once tasked from Brum to the Norwich area for a misper in the early hours, with the probability of not being able to get back to base until fuel would be available once again due to the nature of the task - vulnerable misper. We were cleared and prepared to search until fuel dictated we then had to land at Norwich. As it happened they were found and we were cancelled en-route) |
p.s, Totally my comments based on the reporting by the Mail; considering he was a university student on attachment, there’s a lot from the reporting that doesn’t sound right…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...olleagues.html I look forward to the IOPC report: Apart from the question of whether he would have a police warrant card as a student on placement, was he really ‘continually sent out alone to domestic abuse incidents’ ? However the best example of bad reporting has to be… When Anu's car was found near woodlands on the evening of March 3, the family allege police did not search the area and told them that the woodlands were 'dangerous' and contained wild animals such as 'hedgehogs'. |
Back on thread, is there really no mention of NPAS in this month’s PAN apart from saying Tracker detection units are fitted in NPAS helicopters and, in an article about the ESN, that RW used to work for the service?
What’s the world coming to :hmm: http://www.policeaviationnews.com/Ac...nApril2023.pdf |
Back on thread, is there really no mention of NPAS in this month’s PAN apart from saying Tracker detection units are fitted in NPAS helicopters and, in an article about the ESN, that RW used to work for the service? :} |
With May's NPAS mentionings limited to a brief reference in an article about a 1995 tv programme referring to moving the Met from Lippetts to NW and back again, a mention that there used to be three media professionals employed at Wakey, an observation that Twitter (once the #1 way to go with each unit having it's own Twitter/SocMed champion) being very info restrictive and that there have been no press releases this year, I wonder if June's edition of PAN will be able to be more informative.
PAN reporting must rely on information being given out or discovered through investigation; judging by the NPAS website's latest news page, nothing has happened since November's 'temporary short term relocation of the fixed wing fleet until something more suitable and permanent is found', so I live in hope that June's edition will have something to add :hmm: https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....90b85cc7f6.png |
And then, in the words of the Mr Ben narrator, ‘as if by magic’ a well known name to the organisation begins to appear in the mainstream media for a familiar reason…
“Only limited detail about his departure from policing is being released.” https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ullying-claims https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65708552 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...r-29979780.amp https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cusations.html |
A little more background here:
https://theupsetterstrikes.substack.com/p/fly-rap ...and yet, still allowed to retire on a big fat pension :yuk: |
As an ex-season ticket holder of the naughty bus to Wakefield, I’d say that article sums things up quite nicely while he was at NPAS and I’m pleased to see the ‘T’ world mentioned, the word he constantly referred to those that dared speak out about safety.
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