Originally Posted by
Wirbelsturm
I never flew with the foam attached to be honest and always believed it to be for shipping purposes. To me it just looks like a bit of FOD waiting to happen.
Mind you nothing a couple of tie wraps wouldn't fix I suppose.
The factory glue isn't the best: you can see the excess on the left of the photo that you posted. Quite a few 212/412s I've flown have the tie wrap solution, S61s they hadn't invented tie wraps and used stronger glue
