@Lonewolf_50: Absolute ‘d'accord' with your post.
Thank you for your clarification to "dogs", I've learned more about some English Idioms.
To your topic question:
Do you think the German MoD decision willhave to influence on other nations who have mil versions in their fleet (For example Brazil?)
or
are the configurations different enough to make a decision examined by one of MoD little influence on another MoD's airworthiness decision?
Yes and No; It is absolutely dependent on the exact type of SUPER PUMA the respective military are operating.
In miltitary Type Certification Data Sheet (TCDS) of the German COUGAR is written:
2.3 Type Certification (due to simplified Type Qualification Test)
The Cougar AS 532 U2 type is a military version of the French civil certified type Super Puma AS 332 L2. There still exists an EASA certification (EASA R.002, Issue 02 of 21 April 2006) for the type AS 332 L2 which is based on the French authorization DGAC-Fn from 09 September 1994th ; based on the French homologation 532 U2 as a simplified type test was performed for the type Cougar AS.
[…]
3. Technical features, limitations and requirements
3.1 documents to define the Structural and Technical Conditions of Type
- A list of construction documents the manufacturer Eurocopter France
- Type Specification 532 U2 15.FLU.O4 A from August 1995
- EUKUUOPTER 332 P04 3521 Ed E of 19.06.1997 (Technical de fi nition of the 532nd
U2 VIP Aircraft)
- EUROCOPTER 332 P04 4522 Ed F from 18.02.1997 (List of Equipment).
- EUROCOPTER 532A.00.1000 U2 (AS 532 U2 Master Drawing)
- EUROCOPTER 332 P001205.00 (AS 532 U2 Top Drawing for the German version)
- Engineering Order EOM 0000-27260 (Product Change IFR upgrade)
[…]
5. Rules for Use maintenance, repair an overhaul
It is valid the latest approved by the Director of Airworthiness edition.
5.1 Aircraft: 'Cougar AS 532 U2 Flight Manual
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Maintenance Program
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Airworthiness Limitations
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Maintenance Manual
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Structural Repair Manual
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Overhaul Manual
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Service Bulletins
- Cougar AS 532 U2 Mandatory Service Bulletin
5.2 engine:
DGAC Data Sheet N° M10 12 issue; March 1994 for aircraft type: Cougar AS 532 U2
5.3 IFR upgrade:
- Heli-One (Norway) AS Aircraft Flight Manual Supplement No. AHS 065.CMA 9000 multi-sensor navigation system
- Heli-One (Norway) AS Aircraft Flight Manual Supplement No. AHS-066, ARTEX C406N HM Emergency Locator Transmitter
- Heli-One (Norway) AS Aircraft Flight Manual Supplement No. AHS-067, VH F-4000E VH F-Radio
- Heli-One (Norway) AS Aircraft Flight Manual Supplement No. AHS-068, APX-119 IFF / Mode S transponder
- Heli-One (Norway) AS Aircraft Flight Manual Supplement No. AHS 069th TALON VIUHF Transceiver
- Heli-One (Norway) AS MEL Supplement No. AHS O40A
Such a simplified and supplementary military type certification corresponds strictly to the National, EMAR, MAWA, STANAG and other NATO Standards. Hence the case was crystal clear up from the start resp. since the Crash at Bergen!
As the spokesman for the German Air Force and the German FMOD have very poore professionally experience in aviations, mostly absolute no ideas about what they are speaking and furthermore are obliged by FMOD to 'rose-tinted glasses', they made a call to the AH-Lobbyists and afterwards the spokesmen have told stupid stories and were writing completely nonsense to Parliament and in Media .
Ltn General Muellner has once again enforced the simple principle "where is written what" and thus “Basta”!
AS 532U2 COUGAR only come back into the air when the EASA cancels the grounding of H 225 / AS 332L2; thus again “Basta”!
May be, Gen Müllner became by his tough decision and order the ’best friend’ of Merkel, von der Leyen & Co, but for a knick-knackery Gen Müllner is already to old and he also must worry little by little about lucrative ’hobbies’ to buff up his 'barely state pension' after retirement.
The whole story seems to be no more as one of many typical FMoD Comedies, but the present might become a long time one.
Dear Ladies Angela and Ursula don't worry, Governmental VIP in Germany still can be flown by Federal Police (’De Maizièré Airlines’) in AS 332L1 (but lamentably without armchairs, carpet, galley and toilette).