Ah Jonny you are forgetting about Covid thats the default excuse for everything being delayed at the moment
Don't forget that she already came from the private sector into the public service.
I know.
Why else would you join the PS for a spell, if not to get the CV pumped up for a nice €750k job back in commercial land 4 or 5 years from now.
I know plenty of people from the private sector who have joined the public service at senior level for a variety of reasons other than the mercenary motive that you suggest must be the driver.
Yeah and having plied my own trade in both public and private roles, I'm well aware of the variety of motivations that people have at different phases of their lives and careers.
I'm not suggesting McCrum is mercenary about it, just a realist playing the games that all big money spinners play.
Thanks, very clear. There are other articles on web which seemed to suggest June 2022, but 2023 it is !!
The latest on the second CASA:
https://twitter.com/IrishAirCorps/status/1573298273804247041
An is that our 3rd Casa in the background for Transport🤣
not unless Casa make trucks...
your on fire tonight stovepipe!
in of the pictures you can see what looks like a nose section in the top left of the photo
First flight of the first 295:
https://twitter.com/IrishAirCorps/status/1574419930103029761
Saw that but it could be anybody's. I'd say it's the hangar manager just shunting aircraft around as jobs come in and out. Our Casa is not getting any special treatment and the locals are just working to a schedule to get it ready for airtest, just like any other aircraft. Items like the mission equipment will have been bench tested at the factory before they ever get near the hull and when they do get fitted it, they get tested then and the nearest the build completion, it's all about snag-listing (just like for a new house). I'll bet you that there will be minor snags, of no great risk or importance, that will be carried until the final acceptance and may even be held over to be fixed in Ireland.
By the way, did anyone notice that Aer Lingus got two new aircraft?
No. What are they? Airbus I assume?
NEOs.
Hope they're not Boeing? Assume that's an Airbus A320 or A321?
Second-gen A320s, same generation as the A321LRs they have but not equipped with long haul kit. Will fly primarily to Heathrow which has much cheaper fees for A320NEOs, based on noise.
Unless those yokes are going to have cargo doors carved into the rear fuselage and modular interiors fitted for Air Corps use, take it to the civilian aviation forum.
A couple of better images here of the first Irish CASA 295 - click on links
Will it be much of job changing Irish Air Corps to Irish Air Force on a new aircraft?
Would that it were so simple.
When the 1st 295 arrives will 1 of the 235s be taken out of service straight away or will there be a time when we have 3/4 Casas operating?
Hard to say without knowing of the disposal plans, but my guess is as soon as '284' arrives, one 235 will be laid up immediately.
We don't have the personnel for more than two of the type and with the PC12s ably managing the light transport role, we have no real need to keep them going.
They could be kept going for extra mpa patrols or even strip them out for transport role temporarly for going to africa or else where as needed
Is it actually laid up,? The same has being said about the GASU defender many times but it is still flying
Extra Maritime patrols? If we had 10 planes, we still don't have the crews.
From what i heard the air corps are not in too bad shape and have largely stabiliasted the air crew numbers
I hope so, but even stabilised doesn’t mean having the capacity to grow, could they sustain one of the 235s in operation if it’s reliability allowed for that?
The Air Corps had proposed that for the Top Cover for SAR. Stovepipe can correct me here but i think the he said that the Casas has lofe still in them.
On a seperate note in regards to crewing both the Pc12s and the aw139s are designed to be flow with only one pilot but the air corps always use two. Why is this is? Is it just an internal safety policy they have
Maybe to help keep log book flying hours up for the pilots.
Nope.
Even if manpower was optimum, the operational and workforce plan hasn't allowed for operating more than 2 MPAs.
They may have stabilised the losses, but there is no suggestion that air and ground staff alike are at establishment strength.
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