davidja
21st Mar 2007, 21:54
Following the various debates on the above aircraft and considering the numbers arriving on the european offshore market, why do the main proponents not accept a challenge to come up with a comprehensive list of attributes for each aircraft fiited for role on the North Sea (eg cruise speed at max weight, payload with 3 and 4 hours fuel, comments on type and quality of instrument displays, comments on seating - both cockpit and cabin, max wind for starting/stopping rotors, type and quality of autopilot, purchase price in $, etc, etc etc........the list is endless) and then ask for two senior instructors / or similar on each type who have more than 500 hours on type to record in "their columns" the various attributes of their type. I don't know if pprune can handle a list of criteria that other individuals can then complete? What I do believe is that it would make facinating reading............and separate the wheat from the chaff regarding these two important entrants to the helicopter market.