Tourist, I suppose the clouding of my judgment stems from my experiences of AW as a military aviator operating two of their supported aircraft. The 9A was a great fix initially.......now as time is going on......it doesn't appear so good.....AW support....bollards to be frank.
Good friends on the WC programme are still experiencing problems with the C of G of the aircraft that we had two years ago on the 9A in almost identical situations.
We knew the fixes then (we worked the CG out ourselves and found the figures from AW misleading at best.....)
Yes the Lynx flies well.......but even with technology advances.....how much more can you get out of it!
You will say the -60 model is as old.....if not older. Maybe, but look at the opening spec required from the US Army.....and you will see things there introduced in the 1970's that were nowhere near a Lynx then.
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