Gaspode,
Bad seats, rainwater leaks, and spartan upholstry is just a fact of life in the helicopter world!
If it is glitzy and glitter you want....get your MBA from Wharton or Havard and work your way up to the Gulfstream Jet world.
Max,
Engine chips can be caused by any number of things and usually are benign events. As the aircraft are flown...over time a new aircraft will encounter a need to change one engine ahead of the other and thus a find itself with different hours on the engines.
I am not knowing of the 92 design in particular...but I would imagine the two engine lubrication systems are completely separate and even if they shared a common cooler...it would be partitioned so the oils did not mix and in reality be a single unit but made up of independent modules.
Engine chips are not something to get too concerned about as the magnetic plugs are designed to discover "wear" kinds of material. It is the gear boxes that are the more important concern than the engines re potential failures as the 92 is designed to fly well on a single engine.
Jim L has provided statistical data that shows two engines failing almost simultaneously is so remote a possibility as to be of almost no concern.
Last edited by SASless; 31st December 2011 at 17:28.