500e Heli Man
Some of those 17 reports will have been filled by myself, both in singles and twins. This is a sad case of the Civil Aviation Authority using "incident" reporting to try and justify their stance - many of those reports (I'm assuming) will have been for "chip lights", 'fluctuating oil pressure" etc, pilots responded to the "warnings" and carried out a precautionary landing, or shut a second engine down. Many of these reports, most probably, where cleared quickly by an engineer, then an incident report was generated. This is good practice, but now our CAA are trying to suggest that these 17 reports indicate that engines are not reliable, and this is how the media will take it! Yes I accept, engine failures do happen, but the overall risk needs to be assessed against the added cost of operating 2 engines.