Bloody hell guys. Most of you are just jumping on the gingers because of these incidents but it's a simple matter of ergonomics. Remember back to your elementary trainers and note that the throttle, mixture and rpm levers were not only different colours and positions but different shapes and on many aircraft different textures as well (although wearing leather gloves kills that one). Several layers of defence built in against inadvertant incorrect selections. On the matter of oil containers, we now have a situation where the levels of defence against incorrect selections have been reduced by one. Most of you argue to the effect that the gingers should just read the bloody label but I genuinely think that differentiating between the different oils on as many levels as possible is the right way to go. You may argue that only one preventative measure should be necessary to prevent an incident, and you may be right, but why not have two or three.
I think many of you chaps are being unduly harsh on the gingers (and that's coming from an aircrew mate). Before you shoot your mouth of on this issue have a think about how many fixed-wing guys have cut off the mixture on pfls, and how many RW guys pulled the collective instead of the parking brake, or closed the thottle instead of putting it to idle or
moved the throttle instead of the nozzles and so on.
The change to oil container designs was unnecessary and degrades safety.