maxtork said, "It makes you wonder sometimes. There is another thread going right now about the EMS industry in the US and how it is driven by profit. Nobody is going to run bigger better machines because they cost more. Here we have a bunch of proven aircraft capable of carrying two pilots and all the avionics you could ask for as well as extra fuel without sacrificing payload and with the low purchase price could probably be operated for the same as an star! And we are not allowed to operate these because they are not certified and therefore safe? Oh the irony!"
This is why we have horse races, max! As I see it, the Wessex is a waste of fuel and aluminum, it is neither efficient nor adequately safe for today's environment. Any EMS operator that tried to run these beasts, would have to be run by Monty Python. That anyone would consider getting out of a more modern machine into that dinosaur shows how little we (collectively) have progressed in our understanding of what it is we fly and what our real dangers are.
That the entire lot of dinosaur bones is up for grabs at only 135,000 gives me some hope, though. One new Land Rover costs more, and is worth more.