The days of helicopters catching fire and burning out in the air have gone. It is now an orderly progression through the checklist which will, and has been proved, controls the problem.
no, they just fall out of the sky nowadays - so much for your implicit trust in the progress of helicopter engineering
And the S-92 in Newfoundland highlighted that checklists are not the answer to all problems either.
Whilst I accept that percentage-wise, the SOP and checklist mantra will work - why automatically accept that it will
always be so - if you remove the pilot's ability to recognise and react to an unusual emergency, you might as well have a robot on board. I think I would still rather risk scaring the pax than running out of ideas and time just because the SOP says so.