As i have told before, i have never actually experienced a total loss of xmsn oil....
But i had a total loss of hydraulic fluid during mission flight at night (under NVG).
In the Bell 205, we only had one hydraulic system-so no redundancy available.
I decided to land ASAP-not one second thinking about stretching the landing and making it to the next airfield, which would have been a 15-minutes flight..
The mechanics found a broken seal and changed it.
In my opinion it doesn´t matter what the industry says-they are not sitting in the helicopter with me...
As a pilot (and as a Captain, too) we have to make the right decisions-to satisfy our customers, but to always keep the crew and aircraft well...