You don't need Eng support to run a Det. You need a GE and a phone. THAT'S IT. Any doubters should look to the near-100% serviceability of a certain long-standing K det.
You really believe that you can run a 4 aircraft det with a couple of GEs and whatever spares you can scrape together to take with you? If that's the case, either you're responsible for K availability rates or it's true that you guys have been too long out of the saddle.
And BEags, we all know you work for Airbus now but please stop being a salesman on PPrune. It's against the rules for posting. (And your flawed design is still only that. High T-tail to avoid transonic propwash over the elevators....
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Monkeybumhead, good argument. Must check on the number of quadruple prop changes J's have required at Basrah, straight after I've replaced some lighting stanchions for you in Bahrain.