Good post Sir HC
What you are talking about is pragmatism, in fact steeped and myopic pragmatism.
This is criticism that Frank and others, me too, will find hard to handle.
Why?
Because I am informed that he takes every incident to heart and then copiuosly tries to better the product to short circuit repetition of, "the incident".
That's OK, and good.
The current belts (not the latest stye) on my machine sre sitting pretty good at 908 hours. Mind you when I have all day strong wind turbulence at low level I switch off the governor rather than have it fluctuate for all day at 1.5 seconds intervals at 3", ad infinitum.
I believe that the aversion of self inflicted masochism and a 'little' experience, easily helps me arrive at that deciision.
I DON"T LIKE TO FEEL THE WHOLE DRIVE TRAIN GRUNT AND STRUGGLE EVERY 1.5 SECONDS. Takes my mind right off the usual enjoyable mind wandering subjects I can say??
In the meantime I will fly the main rotor in easy manner, as one should.
tet