Originally Posted by
RVDT
Folk still climb aboard an S92 which is still basically the same as the Cougar machine? They may have fixed a few things but it still won't do 30 minutes with loss of lubrication or maybe I haven't kept up with things?
I don’t fly the S92, but my understanding is: It never did fly, or promise to fly for 30 min with a total loss of MRGB oil. The problem was some crews being clear about this. Lose oil. Land or ditch immediately.
As an EC225 pilot, I followed the “rectifications” carefully. Airbus put out a “film” that said things like: “It might have been due the gearbox being in a traffic accident, so we put shock sensors in the packing now”. “It might have been an undetected deterioration, so we shortened the inspection period”. “It might have been…”
Not really good enough. It might have been something else. I don’t want to be the one that finds out.