Crazy discussion. How "new" do you think your new car, cellphone, laptop is ?? If you think that product comes off a production line, gets polished and sold straight to you, think again.
My "new" car has more than likely spent a couple of months sitting in the open air on a disused airfield in the UK, alongside several thousand others. Then it gets taken to a dealer who gets the lowly-paid apprentice to do a PDI. Then the next person who gets to drive it is me! Hmmmmmm - safe.
I am delighted with RHC's approach. Every machine gets a complete 5-hour check by their team before being delivered to customers. And when the majority of RHC customers are in different parts of the globe, it makes good sense that all shakedowns are carried out at Torrance.
I have a machine on order - and I do not care if it does get used for some RHC Safety Course work. Having done the course, I can assure you that there is no grief given to the machine. No to-the-ground autos, no wild flying.
I'll leave that to the certification pilot :-)