Originally posted by vmax Now between the coast guard and the Aer corp there are 6 S-61's, 5 with winches
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"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
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Mr. Liam Kirwan Director of the Irish Coastguard when asked for his reaction to the Defence Minister's decision last December to discontinue the Irish Air Corps involvement in Search and Rescue in the NW said, "the Air Corps is only a service provider and they have informed us that they cannot meet the standard". Mr. Kirwan said, "the estimated cost of operating 3 Search and Rescue bases by a civilian operator will cost €19 million per year, that's for everything - for six helicopters, all training, flying hours, fuel and VAT at 21%."
he states quite clearly the Coastguard have/will have 6 helicopters anyone know what's what?
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Originally posted by morpheus
I think your wrong there mate, and if not then when did this happen!!????
1)EI MES with winch(Dublin)
2)EI SAR with winch (waterford)
3)EI RCG with winch (Shannon)
4)SK 257 sonn to be EI CXS with winch (Sligo)
5)EI CZN with winch (Shannon)
6)EI CNL without winch (Waterford)
The six heli's have been in country well over a year.
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The Waterford heli does have a winch,EI SAR is the frontline aircraft with winch,EI CNL is a backup.If for any reason SAR goes off line for scheduled or unscheduled maintainence CNL will be used, its just a matter of moving the winch from one aircraft to another which can be done quickly.
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CHC take delivery of an S-92 towards the end of this year.It will be operating in the North sea,they are also due to take delivery of theEC- 225 which is the latest puma.
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They also have spare winches which includes two types, a standard winch and a high speed winch, the later been used on the western sea board.
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Tha editorial piece makes me so f*cking angry, wonder if groucho who was so quick to label Smiths "long fingering" on other purchases, will consider reviewing the situation.
Until now, I couldnt believe that a sane govt would pay millions for PWC reports, agree to them, begin procurement spending another few bob on drafting tenders etc, f*ck THAT up and then decide to blow even more cash in the long run on paying someone else to do the job that, we've (yes you guessed it!) already spent millions in training our OWN citizens to do!!!!
Not only that, but they even have the balls to try and justify replacing 12 rotory aircraft with 6, claiming its a win win situation for the Air Corps!
Another example of Berties Babes ever present Irish solutions to Irish problems, procrastination and borrowing Peter to pay Paul."He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
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Lets face it we need, minimum, a fleet of 25 - 30 black hawks for the army/air corp to cover homeland and overseas missions and approx 8 chinooks. For gods sake the garda nearly have more helios than the army at present. The air corp need to take back control of SAR on the west coast as well.
Like I have said before 10500 votes in the defence forces, time to let the government know this, time they invested.
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Originally posted by Gunner75Lets face it we need, minimum, a fleet of 25 - 30 black hawks for the army/air corp to cover homeland and overseas missions and approx 8 chinooks. .Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
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