I was going to suggest being put out to pasture. They are over 60 years old. Being over 60, I can tell you, keeping up with the guys in their twenties is very, very tough, if not downright impossible, to be completely frank, in the confines of this Assembly, just amongst ourselves.
Are there other uses for the 215s? There could be. The Member and I have talked a bit about this and I have heard this from the owner of Buffalo Airways, his vision of a fleet of pollution-fighting aircraft that could respond to spills and be there if they are needed. In fact, there were discussions with ENR at one point, but there never was a formal proposal put forward. That would be an opportunity for a private sector person if they were interested, I would suggest, to look at getting these very reasonably priced, when they come up for sale, aircraft, especially if they have a bunch of parts of their own that they could keep them in the air and convert to that type of function where they could, in fact, have a lease arrangement with oil companies or whoever would require that type of backup for maybe their environmental licence or their project licence, especially if it’s located on bodies of water.
If you’re getting into the ocean area, then you are looking at, of course, a different jurisdiction. But the flight time of both the 802s and the 215s is about four hours and if you are going to be out in large bodies of water, you have to be very cognizant always about… If you only have four hours of fuel, you don’t want to go out two hours and fifteen minutes because on the way back you could be gliding the last fifteen minutes, hopefully back to land. So, there are lots of things to look at, but I think there are some options out there. Thank you.