Originally Posted by Thomas coupling;8257768or uote)
What a (political) mess hopefully G to fail is on .
So with 50yr old Sea Kings dmore gutegrating due to age - as we speak and supposedly being "retired" next year (
:uh what will they do without a Maritime Force until (at the earliest) 2018???
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Probably the same as we've done without an MPA capability for four years. . . Sweep it under the carpet, claim everything's fine and sing kumbaya around a campfire.
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Are the 15 year old H92's (sorry "new") still going to be FBW?(/quote)
I doubt even Sikorsky know!
(quote) Are the Canadian government talking to other 101 owners about running and maintenance costs?(/quote)
Why would they need to? They don't have to go far to get that information. Or do you mean are they talking to other operators who DIDN'T make a monumental balls up of the support contracts and provisions, to see just how much more it costs when you DO make a balls up?
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Where are the public in all this?
hopefully nowhere near any decision making. The only thing more guaranteed to make a bad situation worse is asking the uneducated public easily swayed by biased reporting and spin what they want. The politicians are doing a fine job of hashing it up, ddon't get the public involved for pity's sake!