Originally Posted by
cafesolo
pilot1234567. After your 12 hours without shut down,was there any lub oil remaining ?
Just the same in Oz, I’d multi crew for campaign fires and the machine would run 12 or more hours without a shutdown; hot refuels were the norm. Never, ever an issue with oils or any other components from sustained running.
Going even further OT, RN Sea Kings on extended ASW exercises would only shut down briefly every couple of sorties (8 hours running) for an oil sample to be drained for SOAP analysis, again never any need for lubes to be topped up even after the few millilitres were drained for the sample
