Originally Posted by
belly tank
The agencies must be laughing again... as they were in the early 2000’s when operators were buying surplus 204’s 205’s... a Mudgee operator did very well at this occasion with no competition.
One had to of course keep up with the “Jones’s” and thus the Blackhawk is the flavour of the year.
Some early backyard players have been spat out down the south coast trying to operate a hawk way out of their depth but I’m sure there will be a few players that can and hopefully will train and keep the dollars upto to meet the standard and this will unfortunately for Aus be overseas companies with big budgets playing here for summer .
I can think of two Australian operators that are investing appropriately into Blackhawk and training local crews up that are already experience Bell medium fire pilots.