Originally Posted by
Hot_LZ
Downwash is a consideration of operating the 189, as it should be with every aircraft but it had absolutely no influence on the change of types in the South. As another poster has stated, the selection of types for 2G had been based on contract requirements, data harvested over the last 9 years and the obvious commercial/financial component.
Why operate a 189 at additional cost when the 139 can achieve the end result just aswell?
LZ
I wonder what is being bid for the Irish contract bearing in mind the number of spare SAR-fit S-92A there will be?