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  • From Facebook.

    Today while one of our Casa Maritime Patrol Aircraft was on a High Level Patrol, close to Rockall, it received notice from an Aer Lingus transatlantic flight of a casualty on board a vessel off the South Coast of Ireland. The crew contacted Air Corps Operations to receive more information and took up a course towards the vessel.
    Charlie 253 made a 805 kilometer dash in 2 hours to take up station overhead the yacht and offer assistance to the responding UK Coastguard helicopter which arrived 25 minutes later.
    Charlie253 remained at 17,000ft to track the inbound helicopter, casualty yacht and a nearby freighter on radar and AIS. The crew provided a communications relay and gave the helicopter 'terminal guidance/vectors' to expedite the rendezvous.
    Charlie253 escorted the helicopter until it was within 100 kilometers of the Scilly Isles. The total airborne time for the Irish Air Corps aircraft was 7hours and 38 minutes. This type of mission shows the aircraft's impressive Reach, Endurance and Utility.
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    • Well done all involved
      Why use a UK chopper in this case?

      Lets see if the media splash this good news story around about the Aer Corps
      Last edited by sofa; 30 June 2017, 23:44.

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      • Originally posted by sofa View Post
        Well done all involved
        Why use a UK chopper in this case?

        Lets see if the media splash this good news story around about the Aer Corps
        Probably within UK SAR Region

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        • Curious about how the Aer Lingus crew became involved - were they contacted directly by the vessel? If so, by what means, Ch. 16 (do they monitor it on transatlantic flights?) or.. ?

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          • 121.5 is permanently monitored on all Transatlantic flights by all airlines; most of the time all you hear is nothing...or someone else's emergency!

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            • Originally posted by DeV View Post
              And even if we have only 2 MPA aircraft it is two more than the RAF at present.

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                • Ah DeV, come on now, you're sharing a video which features a capability not mentioned in the White Paper

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                  • Originally posted by pym View Post
                    Ah DeV, come on now, you're sharing a video which features a capability not mentioned in the White Paper
                    God forbid we get something of actual use. I would rather have one top of the range plane than 8 useless planes that are used to train pilots for aer lingus and Ryanair.
                    Last edited by ibenji; 11 July 2017, 13:22.

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                    • Originally posted by pym View Post
                      Ah DeV, come on now, you're sharing a video which features a capability not mentioned in the White Paper
                      It's in the White Paper - page 66

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                      • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                        It's in the White Paper - page 66
                        Alas DeV, as hard as I squint, I cannot see Anti Submarine Warfare mentioned anywhere.

                        But hey, you knew that.

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                        • Originally posted by pym View Post
                          Ah DeV, come on now, you're sharing a video which features a capability not mentioned in the White Paper
                          Actually there are two versions of the C295 shown, both of which were ordered by Chile. The first is a MPA with s similar suite to that of our CN235, a basic MPA. The second is a full on MPA with sonarbouys, MAD, self-protection and underwing store points for torpedoes and missiles. One could be what we get, guess which one?

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                          • Originally posted by EUFighter View Post
                            Actually there are two versions of the C295 shown, both of which were ordered by Chile. The first is a MPA with s similar suite to that of our CN235, a basic MPA. The second is a full on MPA with sonarbouys, MAD, self-protection and underwing store points for torpedoes and missiles. One could be what we get, guess which one?
                            Jesus, I know. That was the joke.

                            ****ing hell lads.

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                            • Now if we could get the palletised version with ASW capability......

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                              • And then we could convert our two 235's to these! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpI5EfRuLok

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