“It was an enormous pleasure for me to experience the excellent qualities of the A400M for paratroop operations. Paratroopers serving with our customer nations can be confident that the A400M will provide a far superior platform for their operations in future.”
Hmm, what does a self-proclaimed "sport parachutist" know about paratroop operations?
Maybe his comments might be valid if was accustomed to mustering at 1900 for an 0400 drop, spending several hours packing kit and "hurrying up to wait", getting loaded up with so much kit that he cannot climb the ramp unaided, sitting so cramped he is unable to even extend a leg for several hours of low-level insertion while the drivers make half the pax puke, then jumping with ninety odd others playing aerial bumper-cars with directionally unstable chutes.