If you're relegated to riding in the back of most any flying contraption, perhaps your best frame of mind should be from the "Ignorance is bliss" perspective. Becoming intimately aware of the details of how you stay aloft will only destine you to be eternally "Whistling in the dark past the graveyard"' when flying.
Imagine pilots in combat losing one friend after another. Some actually do go cuckoo worrying about the aircraft's abilities AND whether there's a bullet speeding up from below with their name on it. Now then, they deserve the right to be concerned.
If your chosen career includes riding in helos that make you worry then perhaps another way to pay the light bill is called for.
For what it's worth, I can tell you from past experiences with SAC that they do have the very best folks working this issue and they certainly wouldn't allow the S-92 aloft if it wasn't safe.
Last edited by Dan Reno; 28th Mar 2011 at 10:01.