I have a couple of thousand hours in the R22 and maybe 700 in the R44. Recently I have found myself becoming very uncomfortable flying either of them. Not sure why.
I feel they don't help themselves by putting blade fixes on Youtube. I simply have no idea how any corporate lawyer approved that and then the latest VNE restriction placard doesn't really do anything other than give Robinson an out in a lawsuit."Oh, it must have been too windy and the pilot exceeded VNE. Prove otherwise. Thanks."
Mickey mouse fixes and nothing else.