Hilife
Surely all twins are able to fly you home on one engine if loaded correctly? Its just that I would rather fly a helicopter that doesn't routinely put this to the test.
helmet fire
- just picking up on your last point, for protection against flying into the sea I agree that some sort of TAWS is a very good idea.
But I am not a fan of EGPWS for offshore ops because its derived from fixed-wing and currently doesn't really do the job well, but is nevertheless relatively expensive. For a fraction of the price you can have AVAD linked to your radalt which has served well in Europe for many years. The problem is that since the USA didn't invent AVAD, they prefer to pretend it doesn't exist and create a new and very complicated way of achieving the same thing (though not as well).
EGPWS is bandied around as being the best thing since whatever only by people who don't understand how it actually works (and NL)
Only for operations over land does EGPWS have any advantage over AVAD.
HC