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Old 2nd Apr 2003, 11:09
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gaunty

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You're damn tooting right it is a good ship and yes on one engine below 120KTS is a handful for amnyone including a Cessna Test Pilot.

I know coz I used to sell em, new and used and have shared beers with said test pilots. It's a legend in its lifetime.

But they have passed their use by date in the FIFO industry along with the B200 and any other FAR23 type.

This part of the industry should have moved on to exclusively FAR25 types years ago.

There are some "transport" types already in use but it must become universal by regulation if the miners wont mandate it.

This will require some education of both the operators and FIFO users.

The big kids FIFO users, have been insisting on it for yonks.
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