Hope you don't mind me butting in on the thread but no one seems to have looked at the larger picture or may be I lost it in the 52 pages of this thread?
How does the bidder/s hope to fill the EASA Part 66 posts? LAE's are not growing on trees and C rated ones with S92 type ratings are hard to come by.
My local SAR section (771) engineers seem to think its a P of P to get a 66 License and they will all jump ship just as the RN/RAF stop supporting the task.
May be the CAA will just pull up at the gate of every SAR unit and hand out the little red book with a smile for a large stash of cash from the matlots and crabs???
Just a thought and one I would like feedback from those in the know.
I have also heard the buzz that the Cornish SAR will ba at Newquay Airport and not the 'local' RNAS.
Anyway must get back to taking something apart, buggered if I know how it goes back though
