Dan "Pirate" Elliott
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I could pick him up in a 300 and go do loop-de-loops.
No, that's my favourite.
They're just so comfortable and...
They're a little bit slow on a ferry.
You're only doing 80 knots on a ferry, whereas a good Robinson 22 would be doing, say, 90.
So you're 10 knots slower, but it's end of the day is how you hop out after you've done 10 hours of mustering.
You're just at one of them.
They're so nice to fly.
They're a pilot's helicopter.
Look, the 44s are beautiful.
We've got a fair few of them, and they're good, honest helicopters.
Touch wood, but we're still getting good...
We're just not seeing the 22s perform like we used to.
Since COVID, they've been sort of changed a bit there.
And they won't talk to us anymore.
I think they've changed manufacturers of all sorts of parts.