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Wayne.B

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:23:21 -0500, wrote:

They use helicopters with a purchase cost of at least $2 or 3M, and a
flying cost upwards of $2K/hour. The purchase cost is baked in but
the flying costs are not.

Oh, so you think they only fly when there is a rescue operation? Guess again!

I know they do lots of training time in the choppers, as well they
should. The real question, and I don't know the answer, is whether or
not they shorten up training hours as a result of unscheduled mission
time. If not, they do fly more hours when on a rescue.

The other issue is risk. They almost certainly incur more risk to
personnel and equipment on a bad weather offshore rescue than on a
fair weather training flight.