Nice to see a sensible paint job for once. Somebody actually looking after tax payer money.
The current paint we use on our 139's is admittedly high spec and costs around $500 a gallon.
A three colour scheme requires you to hold $1500 of paint with a one year shelf life.
Not unusual to see a gallon thrown away with a couple of egg cups full used or unopened.
The one year shelf life is unopened but that gets ignored!!!!
It is one of the hidden costs of maintaining helicopters.
Could go on about Leonardo specifying sealer at $40 a go and requiring you to use enough to cover the end of a paintbrush.
Then specifying a totally different sealer for another job where you could use the same stuff.
Again all with shelf lives and plenty of it goes in the bin.
In addition subject to the lease companies agreement that colour might be acceptable at lease return saving another $20-30000.
You can't knock somebody for saving tax payer dollars.
Last edited by ericferret; 8th Nov 2021 at 13:16.
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