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Same again
It is only a '412 killer' if it can match or exceed the 412 in all other areas. I would be interested to see if it could fly 8 hours per day water bombing for weeks on end with minimal maintenance and few unserviceability issues. Very pretty though....
That we shall see, but I doubt in the first years. We have 212, 412, 169,... whenever the 100hrs check comes, it’s not exactly “minimum maintenance”, unless under some “non-easa” regs.