Zalt,
I'm not familiar with S61s apart from flying past them when they lumber through the sky. So I cannot comment on it.
But in general, as a driver and not a management type, why are we bothering with relatively minor items in the MEL that stop us from getting airborne, when we continue to operate machines that have either known or unknown deficiencies that have led to fatalities or may well have? Somebody please explain the logic to me, as I am unable to find it.