There are a few things that some understood way back at contract award in March 2013 that affect how and where we've arrived now and where we're going with this in the future.
1. Corporate hustlers thousand of miles away are always out for themselves.
2. The AW189 SAR did not exist as an operational aircraft.
3. The contract technical spec and national SAR regulatory framework that were coming into play were about to surprise a lot of people because nobody had written all of that stuff down before.
4. SAR Technical Crew was not a licensed aviation trade and the CAA and the contractors were sleep-walking into a long-term problem in relation to how "the market" would respond to that.
Numbers 2 & 3 are fixed.