Originally Posted by
MOSTAFA
I have flown 1400+ Hours in Brunei and was perhaps the man who finally got the Lynx **** canned in favour of the 212 the last time. I briefed the then Defence Secretary (George Younger) with his MOD team. I then flew demo’s to the types of LP’s we flew into; in the 3 training areas we used. The were: Labi, Ulu Tutong and the Temburong districts, by far the hardest on the aircraft was Temburong, an average LP in that district had an average temperature of +32 with DA of 5500’ the Tutong, +34 DA 4000’ and the Labi +34 and a DA of 3000’. The other area that has to be taken very carefully into account is using the winch! The Scout MRG oil temp limitations in the hover at those DA’s I forget but I can tell you that it got dangerously high, dangerously quickly. Having a 1000+ on Lynx and being pretty efficient with the ODM it came out with the ability of less payload than the Scout could! Not even seen the New Lynx Mk10 ODM so I’ll leave that to them. Hope that gives a clue!
British helicopters are temperate zone naval weapons.