Police helicopter squadron Bavaria
| Police helicopter squadron Bavaria | |
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 PHuStBY 
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| Headquarters | Munich Airport (Southern Bavaria) |
| Branch office | Otto-Lilienthal-Kaserne Roth (Northern Bavaria) |
| founding year | 1970 |
| Fleet inventory | |
| number | 8th |
| Type | EC 135 P3 |
| Configurations | EOS, winch / external load, transporter |
The Bavarian Police Helicopter Squadron (PHuStBy) is the police helicopter squadron of the Bavarian police . It belongs to the Bavarian riot police and has around 100 employees. The Air Force currently has eight helicopters of the type Airbus H135 P3 .
All machines use edelweiss with a consecutive number as the radio call name .
history
The squadron was initially set up in September 1970 to monitor traffic . In 1971 she got her own helicopter and building for the first time. First of all, helicopters from the then Federal Border Police were used to fly out of rented buildings.
The squadron is now based at Munich Airport (Maintenance Allee 13 / Hangar 3). A branch has been located in the Otto Lilienthal barracks in Roth ( Middle Franconia ) since 1974 . Three police helicopters are stationed there. Until October 1998 , the office was at the Neubiberg Air Base in the southeast of Munich. After completion of the new buildings in Oberschleißheim (around 2018), it is planned to relocate the unit previously stationed at Munich Airport to the Federal Police Fliegerstaffel Oberschleißheim already existing there . However, the construction project is currently being delayed for legal reasons. A move is not expected before 2023.
organization
Around 65% of the approx. 3000 missions per year take place in southern Bavaria .
The equipment includes:
- GSM and SAT-Com satellite telephone
- a FLIR system ( thermal imaging and video camera, gyro-stabilized )
- a Trakka searchlight
- a high resolution digital camera
- a winch (50 meters, 230 kg load capacity)
- Double load hook for external load transport (max.load 1000 kg)
- "Bambi-Bucket" external fire extinguishing containers , which are regularly used in forest fires in hard-to-reach locations.
- "Barryvox" avalanche transceiver with folding shovel ,
- Emergency doctor's backpack ( ULM CASE ) and a collapsible rescue stretcher .
and is put together individually depending on the type of use and, if necessary, attached to or in the helicopter.
The flying personnel usually consists of a helicopter operator ( pilot ) and a flight technician. These are law enforcement officers of the elevated service . Pilots or flight technicians can also be members of the middle service , but after successfully completing their training as a helicopter pilot / flight technician , they must take up the third qualification level at one of the two possible universities of applied sciences in Fürstenfeldbruck or Sulzbach-Rosenberg.
When using the FLIR camera (thermal imaging camera), the crew is supported by a third crew member, the EOS operator (electro-optical system operator), who has no flight training.
The basic training of pilots (VFR / IFR) and flight technicians takes place at the joint flight school of the Federal Police and the police forces of the federal states in St. Augustin near Bonn at the location of the Federal Police Fliegergruppe . The EOS operators are trained by the PHuStBy itself.
The term flight technician must not be confused with aircraft mechanics who are responsible for the maintenance and repair of the aircraft. For this, PHuStBy employs its own maintenance staff. While the pilot is responsible for controlling the helicopter and communicating with air traffic control, the flight technician is the police chief on board, takes care of navigation and radio with other police forces, manages the operation and coordinates the cooperation between ground forces, EOS Operator and pilot. He also operates all of the additional equipment.
helicopter
All helicopters have meanwhile been repainted in blue and white; the runners are black and the outside of the horizontal stabilizer is bright orange. From January 2010, PHuStBy sold all Eurocopter EC 135 P2 (now Airbus H 135). These have been replaced by eight further developed Airbus EC135 P2 + and have since been converted to the H 135 P3 version with an enlarged rotor diameter, missing end plates on the tail unit and a take-off weight increased to 2980 kg.
In July 2020, the budget committee of the Bavarian State Parliament approved 100 million euros for the procurement of 8 new helicopters to replace the EC135. The new helicopters are to belong to the larger 4-ton class and then, with up to 1200 liters, offer more than twice the volume of extinguishing water and double the range for passengers of 700 kilometers. The EC135 will be sold after the new models are commissioned. On July 22, 2020, the new Airbus H145 helicopter model was presented by the Interior Minister.
swell
- Data sheet EC 135 P2 of the Bavarian Police (PDF; 14 kB) ( Memento from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Theodor Mayerhöfer: On the road with the police helicopter , 328 pages, Berlin, Pro BUSINESS GmbH Book-on-Demand , 2005, ISBN 3-8334-1991-1 (from 23 years as a helicopter pilot with the Bavarian police)
- Mountain flight training for a police helicopter pilot. In: aerokurier No. 6/2018, pp. 92-95
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.stbam1.bayern.de ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.polizei.bayern.de
- ↑ www.eads.com
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bavaria wants new police helicopters for 100 million euros. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Bavarian police get new helicopters. July 22, 2020, accessed July 23, 2020 .
