No loader on site changes which aircraft can come.
Drilling equipment, spares and crews move to airfields with short runways, no scheduled service and often no ground equipment. Loading a main deck needs a loader reaching around 5.6 metres, and remote strips rarely have one.
That points to ramp or nose loading aircraft that carry their own access. Elevation matters too: required runway length rises by 7 per cent for every 300 metres, plus 1 per cent per degree above standard temperature, so a hot high site narrows the field further.
