Helicopter maintainance issues after 10000 hours
This is a genuine question seeking answers, and I od not have an opinion one way or the other at this point.
I keep reading that public services such as the police and more recently the RAF air sea rescue sea kings are reaching or have reached the magic 10.000 hour airframe limits hence ought to be changed or upgraded to new airframes. My question si what occurs after that amount of hours to significantly change the maintainace input? I ask because I am aware of CHC and others operationg s61n's that have in excess of 40.000 airframe hours. If they can do it, why cant the sectors mentioned? If critical components have life limited lifetimes, then this does not sudenly change when the airframe they are fitted to reaches 10.000 hours?
Many thanks for any informative replies.