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[chopper2004]

Originally Posted by N707ZS

Is anything known about the owners of AceHawk AerospaceLtd other than the details listed on company house.

Was checking their website

https://acehawkaerospace.com/?page_id=47

and the menus ….as someone said here the website is basic so that a kindergarten pupil could do it themselves

https://acehawkaerospace.com/?page_id=78

IT is not enticing

[EESDL]

To be honest, not sure why they need a website - not sure programs of this magnitude depend on how much money is spent on a website! Slightly troubling that some think it should.......but that's Pprune for you ;-) I see that they are attending Global Defence Helicopters in Warsaw so you can go and ask them for yourself. Maybe they've decided to spend website expenditure on meeting prospective clients?

[trim it out]

Originally Posted by EESDL

To be honest, not sure why they need a website - not sure programs of this magnitude depend on how much money is spent on a website! Slightly troubling that some think it should.......but that's Pprune for you ;-) I see that they are attending Global Defence Helicopters in Warsaw so you can go and ask them for yourself. Maybe they've decided to spend website expenditure on meeting prospective clients?

Fair one. Perhaps Ascent should have spent their website budget on a proper MPS from the start too.

[PPRuNeUser0211]

Originally Posted by trim it out

Fair one. Perhaps Ascent should have spent their website budget on a proper MPS from the start too.

Their website is very shiny, lots of glossy photos of succeeding students.... Are they at least providing a decent MPS now?

[trim it out]

Originally Posted by pba_target

Their website is very shiny, lots of glossy photos of succeeding students.... Are they at least providing a decent MPS now?

Getting there.

https://ascentflighttraining.com/new...em-for-ukmfts/

[Davef68]

There has always been a Goldilocks and the Three bears feeling about the attempts to sell the UK the Blackhawk in the past - Wessex replacement - it's too small, so we bought the Merlin; Lynx replacement, too big, so we got the Lynx mk 10, sorry, Wildcat. Maybe the Puma/Griffon/212/Dauphin one will be the time it's just right?

[Martin the Martian]

Just a thought about Pumas filling the gap between Griffins and NMH. How suitable is the HC.2 for overwater SAR, inasmuch as they do not have winches or flotation gear and how current are the crews in that type of ops?

[trim it out]

Originally Posted by Martin the Martian

Just a thought about Pumas filling the gap between Griffins and NMH. How suitable is the HC.2 for overwater SAR, inasmuch as they do not have winches or flotation gear and how current are the crews in that type of ops?

They do have a winch, otherwise they wouldn't have been sent to Cyprus or Brunei, where winching is bread and butter.

[melmothtw]

Originally Posted by Davef68

There has always been a Goldilocks and the Three bears feeling about the attempts to sell the UK the Blackhawk in the past - Wessex replacement - it's too small, so we bought the Merlin; Lynx replacement, too big, so we got the Lynx mk 10, sorry, Wildcat. Maybe the Puma/Griffon/212/Dauphin one will be the time it's just right?

Too big, or too big for the RAF to allow the Army to operate it?

[JulieAndrews]

So they've finally admitted it ;-)
"Chinese" whispers?

[Hueymeister]

Well, if anyone here is likely to know, it’s you chap!

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by melmothtw

Too big, or too big for the RAF to allow the Army to operate it?

A very valid point! :-)