Wow Platinumpure, it sounds like you got a dog!!!!
We have problems with the M/R scissor bushes wearing out every 200 hours, and cracking on the exhaust tips (although the repair seems to be holding up OK), but other than that the machine just keeps on trucking.
One machine is doing 80-100 hours/month, the other is not online yet, probably won't have enough crews until early next year.
Keep an eye on the upper left hand tailboom mount, on the fuselage side. We have one machine with a crack there, and know of at least one other machine out there with cracking in the same place. Not a major, it is only the support structure cracking, not the primary structure. Repair scheme is pretty simple.
We don't have the aircon. It isn't worth the weight and hassle. No AHRS probs, no GPS probs, no undercarriage or engine probs, and definitely no fuel system probs (we have aux tanks fitted, waste of time!!).
Either you got a dog, or we got lucky!!!
Parts are a problem, although our main problem is trying to get the company to order what we say we need. For instance..... scissor bushes wear out frequently, and we hold none in stock. But, we hold 2 DME aerials in stock, coz they always break!!!
We also have one of every avionic box on the machine, but no pitch links, main rotor blades, or tail rotor blades.
Agree that Agusta need to sort out the spares. It is almost as if they didn't think it would be this popular, and haven't made enough parts!!
Not sure what our fuel burn figures are sorry. We usually max out our weight with 10 or 11 pax, and cruise speed is 150-155 knots. It seems to get better the faster you go
