That may be the case, but statistically and IMO they stay in the air a lot better and have some level of MGB lube oil redundancy i.e. AS332L Glycol cooling, S61 DC aux lube oil pump from lower sump.
I can remember the old Tigers and Mk1 Pumas having gearbox chewing issues in the early 90s in the North Sea and having the odd drip of oil from the chip detector access panel on my survival suit, I'd like to think that in the 21st century helos were being built with a higher safety factor.
I recall reading on one of the posts of the 30-minute dry run capability being a requirement from 1988, are we still to believe that the S-92 still avoids this requirement on the "extremely remote" wording?
Last edited by maxwelg2; 30th Mar 2009 at 18:17.