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The Air Corps flew almost 2,300 missions last year, including 69 Air Ambulance Missions, often involving the transportation of critically ill patients between medical facilities in Ireland and the UK for vital live-saving treatment. The Air Corps also conducts Maritime Patrols in conjuction with the Naval Service, as well as flying the Garda Air Support Unit (GASU) and providing “top cover” for security operations.Last edited by DeV; 4 May 2011, 18:56.
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Originally posted by Helihead View PostThat's six operational missions a day for every day of the year.. Seems a lot."The dolphins were monkeys that didn't like the land, walked back to the water, went back from the sand."
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Don't forget if one Casa does one MARPAT per day, it can represent six airborne hours, whereas a PC-9 doing a training flight might just stay up for 90 minutes, but may fly three times that day, so all is not equal in terms of mission duration. The use of the word mission implies that a flight is non-routine, whereas many of the flights are just routine training flights or airtests or simple carriage of persons from one place to another. In other words, nothing special.
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Originally posted by Pure Hover View PostBe interesting to compare it with the daily CHC mission list?
All we need now is availability figures and serviceability stats for the aircraft to be made public.Last edited by Helihead; 7 May 2011, 07:38.
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Define operational. "cashies" are operational, so is GASU, so is MARPAT, so is Army co-op, so is MATS.Is a MATS positioning flight "operational", by military standards? By any standard, of course it is. Training flights are certainly operational, because individuals and aircraft are being operated and placed at risk on behalf of the State.Six a day is nothing. 6 Cessna flights could cover that.
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there are, of course, some flights which are a waste of space, such as transporting Ministers to open off-licenses, etc,etc but they are included in the catch-all of training
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A more accurate way of doing things would be an individual breakdown of annual operational flight hours per airframe.
Example the last operational flight hours for IRCG aircraft I saw and were for public viewing was approx 3500 hrs for the year, which breaks down to.....875 hrs per airframe. Are figures available for the IAC ? Maybe PH could help.
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Originally posted by Helihead View PostPH, just to correct you it would be IRCG missions, which would be about four a day from four aircraft practising SAR disciplines only,lnot including taskings. Expect the missions to significantly increase with the arrival of the 92's. Mentioning 92's, I believe two arrived into Sligo for fuel the other day to do a job way out west on behalf of the UK, one providing guess what....top cover.
All we need now is availability figures and serviceability stats for the aircraft to be made public.
Sorry but have to ask the question why 2 UK Coastguard a/c had to perform a rescue off the Coast of Ireland. Why couldn't IRCG respond to this? Probably due to range maybe or the fact that the UK still have responsibility for the SAR NW area.
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Originally posted by Helihead View PostA more accurate way of doing things would be an individual breakdown of annual operational flight hours per airframe.
Example the last operational flight hours for IRCG aircraft I saw and were for public viewing was approx 3500 hrs for the year, which breaks down to.....875 hrs per airframe. Are figures available for the IAC ? Maybe PH could help.
CITs
Cessna - 335 missions - 945.75 flight hours
AW139 - 13 missions - 21.75 hrs
Pilatus - 5 missions - 9.42 hrs
GASU
EC135 - 1954 missions - 1,795.85 hrs
Defender - 188 missions- 359.38 hrs
Air Ambulance
CASA - 27 missions - 96.33 hrs
Learjet - 8 missions - 22.17 hrs
AW139 - 45 missions - 124 hrs
Other ATCA
AW139 - 18 missions - 48.75 hrs
EC135 - 18 missions - 43.08 hrs
Cessna - 14 missions - 54.5 hrs
SAR
AW139 - 6 missions - 20.25 hrs
CASA - 4 missions - 15.25 hrs
Maritime Patrols
CASA - 280 missions - 1,558.7 hrs
Cessna - 21 missions - 90 hrs
EC135 - 3 missions - 11.75 hrs
AW139 - 2 missions - 5.5 hrs
MATS
Gulfstream - 42 missions - 220.42 hrs
Learjet - 82 mission - 239.17 hrs
Beechcraft - 1 mission - 0.75 hrs
CASA - 1 mission - 0.67 hrs
EC135 - 4 missions - 7.67 hrs
AW139 - 19 missions - 30.92 hrs
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