Hi Pete
yes she was fine in the helicopter - in fact we went out for quite a long flight and then an exercise and she fell asleep!
With regards to positions - she seems better when I dont try to hold her too tightly in front of me - ie let the sling on the grab hook take the weight of her.
Just got back from 6 days in Norway with the SAR dog teams there - very interesting that they use all their dogs for a combination of airscenting, tracking and evidence grid searching - made it impossoble to set them up areas to train in due to ground contamination so spent most of the time moving to clean ground!!
Hopefully a report from the trip plus some video and phots will be up on the Lakes website in the next few days
Kaz