That rings a chord! During the competition, some Boscombe mates pitched up in our crew room and the subject of the JP replacement cropped up. So they asked us what we thought...
"The Turbo Firecracker is a piece of junk. Nasty little thing, badly made. But British. The Australian A20 is just paper, so it's either the PC-9 or Tucano. Even if the PC-9 is the best, it'll be the Tucano for political reasons now that the Lear Fan has gone tits-up as the government will be desperate to find employment for Northern Irish workers", was what I said.
"Interesting", replied the Boscombe mate, but it seems I was proved right!
Never did fly one though.