Outbreak of common sense on Pprune!
Careful chaps, can't have too much sense in one place - someone might notice!
SA - good to hear. Hopefully OASC gave you the benefit of the doubt despite your heretical views on FSTA!
W2 - well, it's been coming down the pike for a long time now. Awfully embarassing for El Gordo watching Tube PPP go belly up as it was absolutely his personal policy. Suppose we have to hope that we can $hit can PPP and just order properly equipped A330Ks ( 2 hoses, door, boom receive capable, boom) in conventional procurement. It's not over until the wrong contract is signed!
Can anyone give us a rough estimate (guestimate?) of the difference in acquisition and through-life costs of having fit-for-role A330Ks (2 hoses, door, boom recepticle, boom) vs A330K (RAF Vanilla, 2 or 3 hoses only) pls?
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