RCAF Challenger Fleet

[KK7]

Ahhhh, to be supported by the public trough and then bash other recipients of said trough. How Canadian!

Sounds like they'd make good pilots?

[it'sme]

Sounds like they'd make good pilots?

Geeze, I didn't go as far as to say they eat their young!

[all_ramped_up]

Here are a couple links on a bit the CBC did regarding the CC144s and government official's use.
I want to know from you folks if you think there is a need to reduce the CC144 fleet, disband it completely or is there justification in it's use? Or should they upgrade to something newer and more economical to operate as these birds are getting long in the tooth?

http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/gov ... c%7c%7c%7c

[url]http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/low ... c%7c%7c%7c

These aircraft supposedly sit in the hangar 70% of the time anyway. Ohh the horror. They are flying too much. No, they are flying too little. When they do fly it costs $12000 / hr. Give me a fricken break. Complain about 1 thing, not 2 on opposite ends of the spectrum. I have no idea what the utilization of this fleet is at any one time. Or when Mr. MaKay went up for a spin in a Cormorant to see what a search and rescue mission is like. Here is the Minister of Defence trying to get an idea as to the things our military goes through to accomplish a mission. I hope every minister would take an interest in what goes on in the department they are responsible for to make it more efficient like Mr MaKay did. Or when the 3 Challengers went for Trenton to Ottawa within minutes of each other. Have these people any common sense? What if all three were on 1 aircraft and it went down? Oh we would hear a lot about why 3 high ranking officials were on the same aircraft.

Anyway, there is so much more I could say but I would be interested in what your comments are.

$1200 per hour seems pretty cheap to me.

I was thinking the same thing!