I know the aircraft was a bit of a nightmare and the project ill conceived, blah blah, but spare a thought for all those hard working guys and girls who have been maintaining them all these years, trained up on an aircraft type that is no longer. More to the point, stuck in Nowra while all their colleagues get to go to sea and deploy.
My condolences to the CO 815, he's now got a very tough job to do, also to those very motivated young pilots and observers, who have an even longer wait for an OFT.
Maybe a good decision, but it comes at a big people cost.