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Old 8th Feb 2006, 17:59
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scottishbeefer
 
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We'd all like a bit more speed/legs/room of course. The dear old 'King is ideal for most jobs as it covers all the bases inc plenty of room in the back for the boys to treat the trauma plus stack a few more bods.

I think specification creep sometimes gets in the way. Joe Public would rather have 2 older, average choppers than one gucci one. No matter how flash the cab it can only be in one place at once. Is anyone in Govt listening?! Looking forward to seeing how the mil/civ mixed crews of the future get on. Hopefully as long as the feds will pick up the bill then the crunchier jobs will still get done. Hard to see a civvy contractor allowing their most expensive mechanical asset to grub about the hills in the middle of the night.

A mixed fleet is the probably the way ahead but when you look at the stats, literally 98% of jobs are well within the capability (range/payload) of a 139 or Griffin/412 type cab.

Doubt anyone's flown away from the casualty just because they weren't SSE. Those figures are well out anyway, all based on a Mk1 Gnome with a 96 PPI, you'd almost certainly do better in the real event.
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