engretard - yes you are right, we do fly a lot more hours but I guess if you look at the age of some of the S61s (30,000 hrs) they must do something substantially different in terms of engineering since all ours a dead at 10,000. They also don't fetter their engineers with crap like LITS which needs more time to complete than the job itself. We get given the hours so we fly them, cos if you don't, some bean counter takes them away from you the next year.