Have talked to some engineers today and the thought is that in the next day or so the answer may be for yet another directive to inspect the blades and away you go. Personally I find that hard to believe and would not happy with that outcome. Having seen the photo in the Australian AD of the blade crack/crevasse/shifting of the tectonic plates
It is hard to have faith in a blade in its seventh revision and I wonder how someone who has changed out dash 6 blades for 7 would feel now. If it turns out the dash 7 is toast and the dash 8 hasn't been invented, where does that leave the world fleet. We went from aluminium to stainless and back to aluminium. How could you have faith in a dash 8? None of this is good news for the helicopter industry. Interesting to see what turns up at Heliflite stand at Avalon! A 22 and a 66 I suppose.