Preferred Police Helo

andyshanks · November 26, 2003

Hello Dave, you and the scuffers all right?

I was always the same, slow but I get there eventually!!

andyshanks · November 26, 2003

By the way, you should change your signature....

That is definitely not from their best album!!

MightyGem · November 27, 2003

Something else we disagree on then...

Flying Bull · January 30, 2004

The preferred PoliceHelo - well, what a question.

It really depends, what you have/want to do with it.

Due to widespread urban areas and a couple of accidents with single engine helicopters - police in germany is using twins.

And I think, that´s a good choice - regardeless of the costs.

The BO 105 did a good job for over 20 years by now.

The helicopter beeing very manouverable and gives a very good sight for the pilot and copilot.

Fitting FLIR and SX16 and an additional Operator, the Bo comes to it´s limits, especially in summer.

So we looked around and decided to refit our BK 117´s with a Wescam-FLIR-System and the SX 16.

This is "the police helicopter" for us. Evenso as a pilot, you can´t see as much as in the BO 105.

The available power is really great. The BK 117 is also very responsive and fun to fly. Additionally its fitted with the things, which reduce the workoad, especially at night, such as autopilot, Moving Map and so on.

For transport-purposes we run also a EC 155 - which is a state of the art, very fast helicopter - but only suitable for a minor range of police work.

The daily work with searches, FLIR-operatins, photographs and so on is really well done with the BK 117

MightyGem · February 6, 2004

Flying Bull, where did you get your Lynx and Gazelle time. perhaps we know each other.

Heli-Ops · February 6, 2004

Mighty Gem, you wouldnt happen to be a certain OIC from the Central area with an EC135 that was spending a lot of time at the FLIR booth at Helitech would you.

Heli Ops