farsouth, you don't know what you are saying, the results of two threads I have started here on pprune to debate the subject of how much Cat A was enough ended up in routs, with the need for hover - to - hover Cat A as the dominant position of UK ppruners, even considering the inherent loss of range and payload. That tells me that the idea of venturing out in a single would make most UK ppruners shiver in their shoes. Any single engine helo advocate need not search pprune for consolation.
I stand by my position.
And you don't have to post FAR/JAR for me, I was flying Cat A test flights when most ppruners were busy figuring out how shoe laces worked.
BTW, you are also quite wrong about the FAR/JAR interpretation of engine failure probability, robbo jock is correct. The CAA accepts the failure rate in an ETOPS airliner that they won't accept in a helo. The probability of a turbine engine failure for engine cause in a single is approximately two to five times less likely than the probability that the pilot will fly into terrain while the engine is running very nicely.