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Concur - if this has indeed happened in this century there has been a complete failure in leadership somewhere. FWIW the Pilot trade is heavily lopsided towards the white, male persuasion.  Is this by design or just because that’s what we are churning out of the school?  If you can grab the...

A330 MRTT https://www.airbus.com/defence/a330mrtt.html Ozzies know how to do procurement right...

Canada has purchased the latest variant of the -295, no other operator has our flight deck. 

C-390 project seems off the rails.  Prospective orders in play since 2010 and only 4 prototypes made to date.  Not a good option until throughput increased, -390 was in initial bid for FWSAR but never made it to bid.

Most legacy fleets are not ADS-B Out equipped.  We will request state aircraft exemptions when/if flying in CONUS and Alaskan airspace.

The Buffalo will be retired/removed from RCAF inventory by 2021.  Some museums will receive a few for display, the others will be disposed of through standard practices. The Sea King had a retirement gala last year, I imagine we should start planning something similar for the Buffalo. 

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Wx RADAR is in nose radome.  Only really care about the weather in front of us.  The Synthetic Aperature RADAR also has a Wx mode for all the other quads. Very sharp looking in yellow - happy to see 501 ready to go.  517 will be here in January - looking forward to crawling all over her.

Which would then be stripped from the CAF and sent to the Coast Guard, RCMP, etc if we gave up SAR.

Yup - with a valid QS, TP etc.  Except it’s an Airforce qualification, since we actively defend our OpsZ with ball ammunition.  CA came knocking about 3 years ago asking for help in developing their own.

Apparently the author is blissfully unaware that LWCC is the dress of the day for all RCAF personnel (exception being aircrew).  None of us work within "army lines".

It’s all good, we still roll our sleeves.  We don’t follow CA dress regs.

Sleeves rolled up or down, members choice while in office setting.  This was released decades ago via some sort of direction (official or otherwise).  Sleeves don’t roll up on zoom suits, so I guess I’m just happy with the two way zipper.

They are being sent to CAF Museums.  Borden, Comox, Trenton are on the list so far.

FWIW I voted “Guardian”. I had to sound out each name and see how it would sound doing a traffic advisory. “Straits traffic, Snake 502, military Guardian aircraft,1,000 ft, 3 miles south of Hornby Island, southbound.” Try that sentence with any of the proposed names and decide for yourself.

Categorically - every operator of the C-27J have expressed buyers remourse and it has enjoyed a 10% serviceability rate.  It was a close save that we aligned with Airbus and not Alenia.  The USAF dumped their fleet without shedding a tear.  We dodged a lemon. Working space is at a premium, but...

I'll say it again - our STs and crews will be fine.  We take what we have been given and adapt.  The Buff and the Herc are not SAR platforms - we adapted and dealt with what we had. Nobody on these forums have any idea of what the future of FWSAR will be - I'm currently flying the Buff and I...

We don’t have our crews walking around the cabin during turbulent flying conditions.  They are usually strapped into their spotter positions.  The cabin height is almost the same as what Cormorant crews experience in the back, the STs will be fine.

Viking doesn’t have any tooling to support the Buffalo - not one bench.  All the parts for this bird are ultra rare, nobody has a bench open anymore that tools DHC-5 components.  Slapping new engines on a “zero timed” airframe means zero if you don’t have ramp actuators, rudder pumps, TRU fans...

You can’t roll up your sleeves anymore?  Maybe not with all the Velcro panels, but my old school LWCC certainly can.