The parts were ordered 1st November and the Helicopter was delivered 5th January to a Eurcopter approved workshop. Since then not only have many of the service parts not come in but defective MGB which was found to have manufacturing defects were sent to Eurocopter UK in February who then sent them to France who then said after 2 months they could do nothing but could supply a reconditioned one from the US. Then Eurocpter US said they needed a part from Canada and allegedly were ready to ship one month ago. Eurocopter Uk who is allegedly handling this issue has put it in the exclusive hands of an employee on holiday and Eurocopter UK although claiming it is now to be shipped direct can not say if the MGB has been shipped or even if it is in an assembled state. Since this is now the latest item keeping the a/c on the ground and the one holding it up I am just giving you one small piece of the many inefficiencies in the whole system. Sadly there are many more also not limited to Eurocopter- Turbomeca not so hot either.
