North Sea heli ditching: Oct 2012

[TalkSpike]

HC,

You my friend are a nincompoop! Continually referring to which helicopter has caused the most fatalities is not only insensitive, but demonstrates that you have nothing good to say about your aircraft and have resorted to trying to bash the competitor to make yours look better! It’s a form of argument called ad hominem.

Yes the 92 has had its problems, all new aircraft do. Luckily the initial fix for the 92 only required waiting for some new bolts to arrive in the mail, waiting for a redesign of internal workings in a gear box may take a little longer. Since the Cougar incident the 92 gear box has been redesigned and the chances of the same incident happening again are as close to zero as it can get. Will there be other problems, who knows, but as it stands the gear box is working just fine thanks.

The 225 gear box achieved certification with the help of the emlube system which has proven to be 100% ineffective in the field. If it was not for this additional shonky engineering the outcome of the two ditching may have been different. Thank god they were not!

Enjoy your six months of admin duties HC.