Is anyone a born ARCC controller? Winch Op? Or Pilot? No! They receive training
Except some will need more training than others.
Come on Shetlander, use your loaf. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Aircrew that have been selected at OASC and have survived a flying training system where the chop is only ever a couple of sorties away are generally going to catch on quicker than your average bloke off the street, are likely to have more foresight and be more capable of lateral thinking.
I expected great things of the AW189 but the long-range fuel tank in particular looks like a c0ck-up from a weight point of view.
And ground clearance, don't forget. You're catching on though.
At least it has storage space
Oh, maybe not!
The concern around penalty payments for not meeting the contract specification is that as well as spending all the extra money to bring in 139s and extra 92s - and the training and re-training costs that will be required of aircrew and groundcrew - any penalty payments are going to bleed the infamously low £1.6 billion budget dry. This already has the look of something that is being done on a shoestring (dirt cheap NVG we were told a few pages ago) so where else are cost savings going to be made to balance the books? Less training? Less qualified aircrew? Oh, that's right. Shetlander says no-one is born aircrew. Very true, but some people are born more aircrew than others. (Sorry George Orwell.)