Police Aviation News November 2008
Police Aviation News November 2008
Police Aviation News November 2008
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<strong>Police</strong> <strong>Aviation</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>November</strong> <strong>2008</strong> 29<br />
Air Ambulance said “Steve’s enthusiasm played a pivotal role in developing the service the<br />
Devon Air Ambulance offers today. Recently, through his training role, he has been able to<br />
share this experience to help develop other Air Ambulance services throughout England,<br />
Scotland and Wales. His death is a great loss, not just personally and to the team here in<br />
Devon, but throughout the UK.”<br />
RECENT EVENTS<br />
The organisers of the first instance where the well regarded Helitech brand was staged on<br />
mainland Europe took them to Portugal. Whilst undoubtedly secretly crossing their fingers<br />
they were publicly predicting Helitech Europe to be a major success. The end result was a<br />
mixed bag of success and failure. Pretty much what might be expected of an event first footing<br />
in the wake of wholly unexpected banking problems. Add to that a general industry opinion<br />
that there are just too many shows, conferences and the like even a disaster could be<br />
forgiven.<br />
Regardless of the undoubted problems that surfaced over the three days Helitech Europe<br />
worked pretty well and it should survive into the future as a biannual event opposite the UK<br />
event if the ongoing ‘credit crunch’ allows. Some shows will inevitably fall by the wayside in<br />
the current financial climate only the strongest stand much of a chance and first footing<br />
shows must clearly be at risk.<br />
According to the organisers Helitech’s first outing to Airport Cascais near Estoril, Portugal<br />
has been well received by both exhibitors and visitors—which is undoubtedly true—but the<br />
attendee count was pretty modest at ‘more than 1,350’ (pre ABC audit). There were 108