Leave it to the mindless heliconfuser to declare rotor icing protection to be an "operational hazard"! What thoughtless, mindless drivel from EC's biggest salesman! Because the 225 does not offer RIPS, he must find it worthless, or worse, a hazard, else the 225 becomes less, and it is afterall his mistress! What is next HC, crashworthy helicopters might make pilots crash on purpose?
He is a Master at how to take a competing aircraft and take one of its strengths and declare it a weakness! HC must be on Blair's Iraq Cabinet, as chief strategist!
Never mind that the S-92's rotor icing protection system is entirely redundant, and protects in icing at blithering levels that would turn an EC-225 into a submarine, HC actually pontificates that a true icing protection kit is only a minor hazard! What Balls!
Still looking for the WMD, Minister of Strategy?