Sorry if I am repeating myself but when I was at Farnborough last friday admiring the Bell 429 EMS, and chatting to the Bell reps and casually mentioned my previous life. When said, they casually mentioned that Peter Bond would be visiting their chalet and had taken a slight interest in the 429 with regard to EMS.
The Bell reps also claimed that in terms of performance at adverse conditions and alittude the 429 would easily beat the EC-135.
Laying that aside, does anyone have any thoughts that BAS could diversify from Eurocopter fleet to potentially buy the 429 in a few years for the UK EMS market.
I know in the past pre 99, with the sell off to CHC, that they had operated Bell 206 Jetranger so it could be possible that BAS may return to a slightly diversified fleet apart from the current EC-135/BO-105 and AS0332L2.