Originally Posted by
megan
Did the "system" give him the chance of pulling it off safely?..
Sure, send him off as a Cat D for the first 25 hours at significantly reduced weights with cross-wind limitations, then if he hasn't bent anything after that time bump him up to a Cat C. etc etc. But I bet the boss would not be happy going out with less than a full load of passengers. I've got a hunch I know what was going through the pilot's mind when he noticed that caution light on just before landing. I 'aint gonna land with a caution light on and not being allowed to take-off again, causing the boss a headache to get a defect fixed on a helicopter parked out on a pontoon. Boss 'aint gonna be happy with me if I do that. Well, the boss gonna be more unhappy dropping it in the tide, failing to pop the floats and drowns two passengers. All because of second guessing what the boss might think about stranding his helicopter out on a pontoon.