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No you are wrong Toyota care about their consumers safety, do our manufacturers ? EG Super Puma gearbox's in The North Sea, manufacturer said that will be ok and guess what !!!
Lets be honest the automotive industry is years ahead in safety, customers service, quality of product. Aviation has a lot to learn !
We only put up with it as there is no where else to go and they have us by the bollocks !
As an owner of a company, where over the years we have owned 7 Hu 300's, 9 MD 500's, 2 x 206's, SA341's and 342's. Have run for customers R44's and 355's
I can assure you that a manufacturer is crap at just about everything whether it is customer support, parts supply, warranty etc etc
Another example for you, rod end bearing list price $ 195 took it to my local bearing shop, same thing from same manufacturer $ 25 but no aviation paperwork, now if that is not taking the piss I don't what is.
Sikorsky have just put up the price of tr pitch links from $375 to $1275 where is the justification in that.
To be honest the manufactures are driving themselves out of business ! One of my customers owns a construction company plus a helicopter and as he says
if my plant is as unreliable and takes weeks to fix I would be out of business !
I could accept it if we were dealing with the space shuttle but even an R44 has been about for 20 years
