Ericferret I agree with you completely. I think we have to trust each other to do our respective roles. I have never had a engineer flying with us who has asked to check my planning.
In offshore operations the less the pilots interfere under the cowlings the better. We do a walk round which is really to check all cowlings, doors and fuel caps are secure, blanks removed and no obvious bits missing.
Climbing on top of a puma on an Aberdeen winters day is akin to mountaineering and best left to the engineers.
I am more surprised at the anger directed towards the Operator when as yet, no cause has been intimated.