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Irish Air Corps / NS air

« on: October 02, 2006, 11:07:09 am »

OK, rumour has it that the tender for sale of the 4 Dauphins has had them withdrawn at a price of €600,000.
Now the really sad bit of this is that that may be a realistic asking price for these aircrafts. Yup, 4 choppers and a s***load of spares for the price of a 4 bedroomed semi-' in the capital.
These machines are only about half way thru ' their expected life, but are in need of a rebuild.

I think it's time to let the NS have them, 2 are suitable for shipboard ops', as soon as that CRT junk is ripped out of them, while the other 2 may be adopted for the same job, [I cannot get a definitive answer on this] but even if they are not, they are available for training, inshore work, whatever [subject to the same rebuild, of course].
Selling them at the rumoured price would clearly be not value for money, where as useing them to reintroduce the concept of shipboard air ops' might make a bit of sense.
And, before anyone says anything I do realise that 'sense' is an alien concept to our present and preceeding governments, but you never know......
Also posted on IMO...
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Irish Air Corps / IMO is in the loo again

« on: May 20, 2005, 11:18:48 pm »

Many of you have, by now, realised that IMO is, once again, down the toilet.
But while that professional civillian; Boomer, tries to fix everything, bear this in mind:


Location:
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 Chatroom
Since it seems some people can't live without IMO chat, I think a temporary replacement is needed

http://www.boards.ie/chat/
(ssssh, they don't need to know we're using their server)

Click on that link, connect, and when you're connected type "/join #irlmil" and press enter

 Cut and pasted from a post made by Barry on www.irishmilitary.com

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Irish Air Corps / An airshow in Bray?

« on: January 25, 2005, 08:42:01 pm »

Word has reached me about a possible airshow in Bray of all places, Anyone heard anything please???

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Irish Air Corps / The PC-9's go active

« on: November 28, 2004, 10:54:52 pm »

A PC-9 was seen on thursday in Bal' with gun and rocket pods fitted.
They are to do air-to-ground shooting in the next few weeks, at a floating target at sea, location presently unknown, [to me anyway].
Zulu, of Robot Wars, fame built the target,[Ch***t, it will probally fire back!! ]
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Irish Air Corps / Cessna replacement.....

« on: March 28, 2004, 11:10:21 pm »

Based on something F. Malloy said:
The Cessna replacement, does it have to be a fixed wing, is there anything in it's required functions that prevents it's replacement by more helicopters?
Perhaps it would make economic sense to replace the Cessnas with [say] 3-4 more of whatever light helicopter 'they' are thinking about.
 
This has already been posted on IMO.

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Irish Air Corps / Orish

« on: March 20, 2004, 09:08:13 pm »

Is this d**n ignorant furreners havin' a go at our DF?
This is also on www.irishmilitaryonline.com

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=22739

http://www.pprune.org/forums....=121753


Is it a St. Paddy's day thing?

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Irish Air Corps / How many helicopters?

« on: February 29, 2004, 09:36:49 pm »

This was also posted on IMO, but as there seems to be more Air Corps here, here goes:


How many??
Just to get away from fighters for a while, before I throw up!!
It looks like the Irish Air Corps might get troop transport helicopters, at long last.
So, I got a question, well several questions really:
1] How many bodies, minimum, is the desired amount to land in the LZ,[hot or cold] in the initial phase?
2] How many for follow up waves?
3] Now , how many helicopters of different types[including spares] to make this happen?
4] Finally, what about heavy wepons support and Casevac[spellin?]?

Since I typed this peice of verbage, a couple of other things have occured to me.
1] Is a helicopter that is suitable for troop-transport also suitable for general utility? you know, island relife, air ambulance, useless minister transport, ect?
2] What about training, will we need an additional trainer, or is it possable for something like a Blackhawk to be used for that?
3] Is it possable to get something suitable for shipboard [not necessarly our own ships] use, that can also fit all of the above?

Sorry if this rambles a bit.

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Irish Air Corps / Tactical transport

« on: December 22, 2003, 09:12:54 pm »

Theres no comparison the C-130s engines would suck up our budget, and I doubt we could make a single machine work, the C-295 C-27J where considered because although they have lower payload capacity they are cheap enough to purchase a viable pair.
The C-295 is also less thirsty and less maintenance intensive.

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Irish Air Corps / Caption Contest number3

« on: August 20, 2003, 08:12:19 pm »

Look at the picture, write a caption, the sillier the better, you may win a prize!