Does anyone know how the Portuguese are getting on with their SAR Merlins? Do they have a rear ramp for easier Cas off-load or is it traditional on SAR that casualties/unhurt survivors have to jump/be assisted from the side door on the ac? ISTR from a Wessex chap 'the Seaking won't be as good in the mountains, downwash, cab too big' now this is being said of Merlin, well, downwash anyway. If the SARF were to get Merlin then the crews could alternate on posting with SH, keeping crew conversion down? Still, politics and logic, an oxymoron if ever there was one.