3D - components only need changing once - if only it were so, we have one aircraft on it's 3rd time of engine removal due to a high speed shaft vibration and we are having increasing numbers of MRGBs that are not making their TBO - maybe that lack of engineers is affecting AW as well.
If the pay was better, I suspect there would be a good few more engineers leaving the forces, especially if there was financial assistance to gain their licences. The mid £20K mark that AW and VT aimed at for the contract didn't tempt as many out of light blue as they had hoped.
212man - what is this clever 3dcam in the 61 then? I flew the Nuri in Malaysia last year and apart from the fact that the co had to keep setting specific Nr for certain stages of flight, it seemd as though the system was a normal hydromechanical governor with static droop.