Originally Posted by
Thomas coupling
When I flew the SK, for every hour airborne, it needed approx 10hrs maintenance. When the Merlin came into service every hour airborne required 80....yes 80hrs maintenance. I believe (talking to my neighbour who is a Merlin AEO that this figure is now down to around 45-60hrs.
Apples with apples, TC. To compare front line mil helicopters with all the associated ASW kit back in the day when computers were analogue and trouble shooting had no BITE to come up with a solution in <5 minutes, with modern digital commercial machines might not be fair.
Is the S92 quoted the MH rate for a SAR machine?