Hoist penalty
C4 a couple of points to note.
1) The item affected by the increase of hours when hoisting ops are carried out is the Main Rotor Mast assembly (part numbers specified are for the mast) as the mast cannot be separated from the main transmission in the field at the moment the transmission will need to be replaced once its LL is reached.
2) Speak with your Agusta rep to confirm but my understanding is that only the flight time spent during the hoisting operation is penalized, not the entire sortie flight time. Therefore it is very important to accurately record and log time spent hoisting.
Cheers
dl