Cobham Special Mission
AMSA's SAR tender was announced over 2 years ago, Perth has had no coverage since early August, Cairns no Cobham coverage since October, thank heaven for the current contractor that they still have a base in Brisbane, Essendon is shutting on Sunday, that will leave only 1 fixed wing tier 1 aircraft for the whole of the county.
Border Protection is running at 30% with 20+ pilots short to fulfil this operation, how do our borders stay intact when their is very limited coverage.
Is it to much to ask for 1 organisation to fulfil 2 special mission contracts at the same time, clearly Cobham are struggling and are not up to the job.
On the other hand the outgoing Tier 1 operator has been delivering an uninterrupted service for quite a few years now and they started on time and will deliver a service until the last day, or will it be their last day!!
Last edited by SpecMissGuru; 6th Dec 2016 at 22:24.