If you give it to an operator on a dry lease you can expect to get back .....a helicopter worth a lot less than the one you gave them .......this MAY be made up by the lease money generated but the chances are there will have been something unexpected go wrong which will cost you , not the operator, many thousands !!! Generally the dry lease money on offer will give you a loss 90% of the time .
sadly the prices these machines go out at leaves very little if anything for the operator by the time he has paid the CAA and a load of paper pushers ...so they are in no position to pay you , the owner, well. This has been helicopters in this country for the last 40 years and it aint going to change soon !!! that is why most are owned by rich people who just love them even though they lose money .