Further to what my esteemed college (eocvictim) is saying about the 'pig' not being suitable for the RFDS. Apart from the cost of operating a new type with all the associated hassles/costs for spares & Mech's etc. a few of us drivers & spanner wizards where sitting around getting coffee d up for a long nite ahead chatting about the 'pig's use as an Aeromed machine for the Aussie environment. So apart from it's limitations as mentioned already we so called 'experts' got onto the subject of that funny thing sticking out the side up front of the 'pig'. The canards. We could just see it now.
Scene: Nite, poor lighting, type ('pig) not long in service, location dirt strip in some god forsaken outback place. Ambulance drives into the parking area where the 'pig' awaits in haste due the urgency of this mythical case & slams into the canard accidentally................OUCH!!! Poor bugger (driver with good intentions) wasn't expecting to have something sticking out of the plane in that spot. Driver meant well but right there & then scraped a 'pig', well for the foreseeable future anyway.In a nut shell, too delicate an Aeroplane for Aeromed ops in the bush was the opinion
Besides apart from the Wright Bro's having a canard at the outset of this madness(aviation) the idea has only been touched on a few times in the last 100 yrs so it's obvious to most manufacturers that it ain't the way to go .
Wmk2