Bushranger,
Mary feature about 9,500ft AMSL from memory, approach flown was to a IGE hover I think. Below 5000ft performance no probs - used to laugh at Kiwi's with the Hueys as they had to offload either fuel or pax to get to some places where as the blackhawk took full fuel and load until it got high.
Having said that I can't remember being very limited in the C model chook when a boggie at 12Sqn - guess that's why the there are so many chooks in theatre. Shame the army hasn't kept them up to the currnet mod. Though RAAF guitly of doing the same with some of it's airframes - unless of course it's a fast jet.
Don't suppose we can do a "seasprite" and scap the tiger/mrh90 and just get mike blackhawks and D model apaches?? You know - off the shelf like teh C-17
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