We had been suffering from a number of unexplained and expensive main rotor star cracks on our Dauphins. For those not familiar witht he 365 the star is the main load carrying structure in the main rotor head.
In conversation with a hoist operator he began to talk about pilot X's party trick.
Apparently X would make a pen magically rise into the air from the centre console.
Pilot X was taken to task and we suffered no more star cracks.
Last edited by ericferret; 27th Apr 2013 at 22:31.