Originally Posted by
HeliComparator
Rational is to mean based on reason or logic. Fear tends not to be reasonable or logical. Your average pax can’t possibly be expected to evaluate all the many factors that would allow us to say that helicopter x is safer than helicopter y. The experts on here can’t agree, so clearly it would be ludicrous to imply that an amorphous group of people called “the pax” could come up with the right answer. The pax will instead look at which helicopter crashed most recently on their patch, what the Daily Mail and social media had to say about it, and whether they find riding in the back of it pleasing to the posterior. All of which is fair enough and human nature, but it doesn’t mean they will come up with an accurate evaluation of the relative safety of various different types of helicopter.
Perhaps although slightly overlooking the fundamentals. They don’t need to evaluate the detail of helicopters merely likely assume that the model of helicopter without its rotor isn’t ideal.
Ok perhaps you might say fool me once… then they reflect upon how 2012 was dealt with and then 2016 happened…
Everything you have just posted is / would be absolutely fair except they are the same comments made prior to 2016 and so now what you’re saying is - it really is fixed now. How that process occurred now but not ahead of 2016 is likely more than half of the problem.