Originally Posted by
WillyPete
The Cabri has a bit of a design problem at the firewall, abrading electric cables.
About two years ago, I was taking a flight with VVB (Now ICE Heli) and when lifting collective and getting light on the skids prior to hover, the display rebooted and the power dropped as though we'd hit the plasma ignition switch.
A bit of a "Woah, what was that?" moment, and moving over to the grass at Elstree we determined that it wasn't just at a certain collective angle, but when the ship vibrated a bit with the governor revving up for power demand.
We couldn't see what the issue was so shut down and scrubbed the flight.
Maintenance took a long time to find it but eventually found there was wear to cables coming from the cabin.
Then I spotted this in the news the other week:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...herts-51959648
Turns out that a different aircraft burnt down due to the same fault.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...CILR_04-20.pdf
Glad we caught ours before it got a bit serious up in the air.
If you're in one, make sure it's got the upgraded clips.
Not really a design problem.
More a maintainence problem, assembling the parts incorrectly.
OK, in the aviation world we should try do design things failsafe, so incorrect assembly isn't possible - so just a little bit of design fault ;-)