Training at Goodwood on the H500 day one

Preparatory to training two Kenyan lads on the H500, I went up to Wolverhampton to pick it up, to bring it down to Goodwood.
Pushed out of hangar etc... signed out, checked out.
Ready to start - ignite - chug chug chug N1 can hardly get itself up to 13%.
Flat battery.
I rang the owner - busy - call back.
We went into the cafe (we are pilots - where else) and there were the police - who have an EC135.
Hurrah.
The police kindly agreed to lend us their APU (Auxilliary Power Unit), however this runs from mains power and that meant three extension cable connections from the power source. Whether it was the connections or the strength of their battery it was hard to say - but UO chugged some more and would not fire.

The police wondered about the battery on their heavylifter. Then had a brilliant idea. PNG next door had an APU and an engineer who knew about 500s, should there be a further problem. It was the answer. New APU attached and BINGO, UO sprang into life.

Many many thanks to all the guys at HelfPenny Green. I could see a week's work going down the drain and being replaced by some long days in the engineering hangar/cafe waiting!

Flew on to High Wycombe as one of the lads used to have a British 500 rating and we needed to spend some time at an ATO to get the licence regenerated. Now at Goodwood. More later.