Originally Posted by
puntosaurus
DB
The AW109E power fuel system needs no attention when the fuel states are low, and will run down to unusable without any intervention if required.
I'm not trying to make a point about superiority of one manufacturer's system over another's. In fact there is a cheeky gotcha if you get a pump failure in the AW109E when the fuel state is low.
A109:
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources...pdf_508162.pdf
"The aircraft was returning from Morriston Hospital, Swansea to the operators base near Carmarthen with a pilot and two passengers onboard when it suffered a double engine failure due to fuel starvation at height of approximately 400 feet above ground level (agl)."
"there's a cheecky gotcha" yup wherever there's a "cheecky gotcha" it'll get someone sometime, just a mater of time. The Law according to Murphy.
Can't just blame the pilot, even if it was 'his error'
This is more (double) engine failures than the (flawed) theory promoting twin engined helicopters predicts. THEREFORE the theory is WRONG. (then add in all the extra risks from daft gearboxes etc )
1 in how many
billion? Yea yea