Great link thank youAs a civvie I found this post on the difference between FFH and AOPS crew structure useful in understanding the challenges of getting the manpower side locked in.
Likely old hat to those of you in the know.
That would be the XO's chair.
Or the Senior Officer, if one is onboard.
The reason I asked the Captain and the Cox’n was because it had “Cox’n” embroidered into the fabric on the back of it. As I mentioned, I’ve never seen that before and was curious, but their reaction when I brought it up was almost like an inside joke.
Someone totally made that as a joke.
That would definitely explain her reaction. The Captain was having a pretty solid laugh when I brought it up.
Because the Air Force.
It's not like we're in any hurry to get AOPS fully certified. They've been going to the Arctic for some time now, do we really need to operate a helo that badly.
The RCN already has a MOU with the CCG to operate CCG helos from the deck of AOPV's. That really hasn't happened but I suppose its all about the lack of flight deck certification. Again do we need to operate helos on AOPV's from the hanger or at all? It seems like AOPS can operate in the Arctic without a helo and do fine. Use the hanger for the current and planned RCN drones and have the ability to stage offensive drones with payload from the ship.
That might depend on how seriously crew members get sick.
We are in a hurry, but aviation standards don't bend to RCN whims...
CCG Hellos are civilian, which means in some ways, their standards for operations are actually higher than ours. The RCN can't fly helos from AOPVs because the RCN and RCAF don't think it's worth effort/money.
True the risk is there. They also have a large well stocked sickbay with actual medical professionals. When the Kingston Class was deployed to the Arctic with virtually no sickbay other than the wardroom and often longer than AOPS has deployed with no helo and flightdeck.
Well "hurry" its a relative tern isn't it, especially in the RCN. If its not worth the money, continue to certify the flightdeck to receive helo's and pivot the hanger capability to offensive drones and drones for surveillance and ice spotting. MARTECH's usually don't but we do have something to do on the firefighting systems to land a helo and all that other pesty engineering.
When the AOPs were first designed, the RCN took a deliberate decision to cut corners on the hangar and flight deck, in order to save money.
