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London Police fly 5,000 hours with Skyquest
London’s Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit is celebrating the landmark of 5,000 hours flown on its fleet of three EC145 helicopters, with a ringing endorsement of the contribution made by Skyquest Aviation’s video management system.
Sergeant Richard Brandon says that the five mission management screens, multiple recording devices and the ability to view multiple sensors at once, “continue to represent a revolution in law-enforcement imagery.
“Scarcely a day goes by when we don’t look at our system – now approaching two years old – and remark that this remains absolutely cutting-edge technology. There’s simply nothing better out there.”
Skyquest’s VMS is currently fitted to over half the police helicopters flying over the UK. Using touch-screen technology, it enables observers and pilots to independently select, view and record the images they need with no signal loss.
Geoff Turner of Skyquest says that their VMS, uniquely, enables each crewmember to select and view the most appropriate sensor for the task in hand. “ The pilot may select the moving-map on his flip-up screen, while one observer can view approaches to a crime-scene and the other check a road for infra-red traces. It offers each of them complete flexibility.”
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