The contract states as I was told is this is what we won't and this is what we will pay. How you do it is up to you.
No don't work for AR btw. Completely independent of anyone. All I've done is up dating what I'm told. And yes a jet is more than capable of performing the operations required. Lots of other country's use them.

What's got to be considered is that the funds available andante a short time loose for someone may end up as a long time gain. Then the politics involved with people that don't won't certain players involved ( Seen that with other government contracts ).

See what happens

Hhhhmmmmmmmmm, what are we betting ow. I believed you were of the opinion, TP no jets however now you are saying 604 or 146. Which one is it?

Me I'm not betting just relaying what I've been told. 146 I would say to exxxxxy to run. 135 145 per flight hour I would imagine maybe even less than a 328 or dash.

I would hope they wouldn't bid with a 146 (no one in SM with any experience on them, have to find a B146 management team for SM when they're already short of B146 experience in Regional), an Ejet on the other hand...

DN NOTAM
 

There's a Darwin NOTAM for SAR dropping training for CUSTOMS DASH 8 Aircraft, however this may have something to do with the DN AR base contract finishing up at the end of this year. Certainly looking better for Cobham though.

Nothing new there. Cobham have been doing drop training for a couple of years now.

Customs charters the dornier from time to time too

Pearl told today they no longer have the contract. Unknown at the moment who got it

Cobham got it.

Nothing about it online. Me thinks you're drunk Drunk Pilot.

Cobham got it!!

What with??

You forget that the contract that Cobham have was commenced in 1994/5 by NJS, then an Australian company owned by Warren Seymour & Adelle Lloyd. Should all the Aussies employed, subject now to foreign ownership they had no say in, be retrenched just because of a buy-out?

Who says they were undercut?

You may buy the cheapest of everything you see, I suspect its a better product that has been offered. Not a 146, not a 135, and not DHC8 and certainly not Dorniers.

There was nothing wrong with the 328 airframes. Supporting systems let it down.

So what aircraft is doing it?

Only heard rumours and nothing official as yet but dash 8. I'm fussing 300 series at this stage.

-300 branded coastwatch on one side and rescue on the other than hey?

Perhaps they will go with the CN-235/HC-144 like the US Coast Guard use.

This would just about be curtains for Pearl Aviation then? No more PTTEP to Truscott, no more Dorniers. Some King Airs but that's about it. Sad, I like them.

Maybe not. Talk about convert them back to pax. They have narrow gear which makes the suitable under the rules for some strips in the NT