twinstar_ca Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 SO what's the consensus of the board on the 120 ceasing production?? Does Sierra still have theirs?? I know CPS still has 2 and doesn't Edmonton and Winnipeg PD's each have 1?? Anyone else operating one?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrayHorizons Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 There is still 48 registered in canada. Some fly alot of hours. some fly very few. http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/ccarcs-riacc/RchSimpRes.aspx?cn=||&mn=EC120|&sn=||&on=||&m=|| Personally I liked the aircraft, but numbers are numbers and it wasn't selling. Its a no brainer that Airbus would cancel it. Had they made an effort to add power, and reduce O/H costs while keeping overall operating costs low, then perhaps they would have continued selling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zazu Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 To quote a FB post... “Great aircraft, wrong engine”. About the best way to put it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpleton Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Wrong transmission.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bif Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 I loved flying it on fires this summer. It's a wonderful little machine if you know its limits. A perfect Helco/Admin platform if you ask me... But yeah, a beefed up drive train would work wonders. Having said that, I medevaced 3 folks off the fire line with 50% fuel on a fairly average day and we verticalled out no problem. To me, it's just so damned stable in the hover you never spill any lift. I've yet to fly it in a truly hot or high environment though. It's disappointing no one came up with a solution, but like GrayHorizons said numbers are numbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heliian Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 The solution is a bigger machine like the 130 or 350 or 407 or 206l4. The original market was for the golfing foursome and their bags. It's a cute little machine, little being the operative word. Now the 505 is coming out to fill the void. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flingwinger Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 I’d take the 120 any day over a 206. Just so much cargo space it’s easy to load it up then wonder why it’s underpowered. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomtown Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 17 hours ago, flingwinger said: I’d take the 120 any day over a 206. Just so much cargo space it’s easy to load it up then wonder why it’s underpowered. Wouldn’t say that hot and high Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpleton Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 The 120 is garbage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0T0R Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Another enlightened post. How many hours do you have in the aircraft simpleton? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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