Colin Parkinson
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Could you run a pair of AEW aircraft out of a far north base, for a 2 week stint and then either aircraft or crews comeback south, replaced by other crews/aircraft?
Canada to Spend $5.0Bil on AEW Aircraft
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Not sure of your intended question but rotating any aircraft and crew in shouldn't be a problem. Any acquisition like this will probably be sized for three simultaneous taskings: 1) Force Generation; 2) NORAD/Arctic; 3) Sustained deploy to NATO or Indo-Pacific. I would guesstimate that 5-6 aircraft should meet those requirements (with admittedly limited flexibility).
Should be noted that we wouldn't deploy an AEW continuously up north. Just like we don't deploy tankers and fighters continuously up north today. Intelligence based cueing drives pre-positioning to FOBs. No reason to expect that to change substantially in the future.
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Not with the CFHD cutoffs. The Pte/Cpls may want to go there, but good luck convincing any officers above the rank of Lt, which are all of the ABMs, Pilots, and such.
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100%. We can't get people to go to Ottawa, and it's a lot less expensive.
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I guess I used too many acronyms in my former post.
We are going to be setting up a new MOB for the CC330 tankers in the west. Short list is Calgary or Edmonton international. Combine the infrastructure $$ and get a flight line full of grey planes. Every AEW plane is going to tank for ONSTA.
We are going to be setting up a new MOB for the CC330 tankers in the west. Short list is Calgary or Edmonton international. Combine the infrastructure $$ and get a flight line full of grey planes. Every AEW plane is going to tank for ONSTA.
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If the RCAF can make CC-144s work out of YOW, no reason why CC-330s can’t work out of YYC.
What would be interesting, is to see how YMJ would do in a COA comparison…
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Think of the children!If the RCAF can make CC-144s work out of YOW, no reason why CC-330s can’t work out of YYC.
What would be interesting, is to see how YMJ would do in a COA comparison…
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No issue there. I still remember “youngest great-great-grandma” contests at the Moose Jaw Mall…76 years old…the children are alive and well!
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I think, honestly, Edmonton makes the most sense. YEG has a metric boatload of ramp space and great housing options in Leduc, Beaumont and South Edmonton.If the RCAF can make CC-144s work out of YOW, no reason why CC-330s can’t work out of YYC.
What would be interesting, is to see how YMJ would do in a COA comparison…
Quirky
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Yeah but will YEG really attract people from the rest of Canada?
I moved to Alberta and hated everything about it. After three months, I came back to Toronto
My trek to Edmonton ended up being an expensive mid-life crisis
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They say, “Time spent in recce is seldom wasted.”Yeah but will YEG really attract people from the rest of Canada?
I moved to Alberta and hated everything about it. After three months, I came back to Toronto
My trek to Edmonton ended up being an expensive mid-life crisis
Methinks there was a poor recce plan here.
OldSolduer
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33 and a "mid life crisis". Poor muffin.....awwww
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If people take her experience as an example to do thorough homework before making a big life change, then it’s not so much a waste as a lesson learned.
The “two master bedrooms for $400K” should have been an indicator to make decisions on something other than a memory of the good times in a 3-day biz trip out West.
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I keep telling you people: Mirabel has tons of room. On the North side of Montreal, so reasonable rental / housing market, and within easy reach of loads of employment for spouses / family. Bonus: easy commuting to all the activities in Montreal.
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Yes, but the plan seems to be to split the tanker fleet along E/W lines to support both Fighter MOBs. A Trenton/Mirabel split would not exactly accomplish that.
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So easy, that YMX became the massive transport hub that PET envisioned…
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That is not what killed it: After the residents around YUL realized the economic benefits they were going to lose when all air traffic was redirected at Mirabel, they blocked the transfer of domestic flights through their political representatives. The two airports, where you had to commute from Mirabel to Dorval just to change plane, was a nightmare and a pain in the posterior. As a result, there was a "debate" on what to do that put a "temporary" stop on all extra development of Mirabel, including and this was major, the Terminal-to-Downtown high speed train that was to do the trip in 20 minutes.
In the end, that is what killed it. Which, BTW, is the reason I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for all the Montreal West Island residents that are bitching about the noise from Dorval these days: You had your chance and then blew it by refusing to let it happen.
In the end, that is what killed it. Which, BTW, is the reason I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for all the Montreal West Island residents that are bitching about the noise from Dorval these days: You had your chance and then blew it by refusing to let it happen.
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The refusal to find infra to join the two airports (YUL and YMX) also played a significant role - no good highways, no rail...
