I suppose it is time for HC to jump in here and tell us how superior the 225 is when compared to the 92.
When it is flying, it is of course vastly superior to the S92. However, when it falls into the water (again), it is no better...
HC, what a shame you have become a Rotorhead's character that is pilloried in public like Shell Management.
Perhaps it is even sadder that you don't realise it is happening. Your response was so very predicable, despite your undoubted ability to provide a more reasoned and balanced one.
The EC225 is just a machine - with flaws and weaknesses like any other machine. A small cabin, a totally inadequate luggage bay, an in service reliability rate that is embarrassing, and a DOC that is not competitive. Oh - it also has seems to have an affinity to lying on it's side as well as to water.
However it is a good machine from the pilot's perspective - shame the customers get such a poor product!
A "Super Puma" that has genuinely reached the end of it's useful life and perhaps isn't so "Super" any more?