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calling engineers
can anyone suggest the best way of finding licensed helicopter engineers for Robinson, bell hughes eurocopter and enstrom. There seems to be plenty of fixed wing but rotary are rare as hens teeth.
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Henry Monster, I think this forum is a great place to start.
it does depend on where you are based but here's a list of engineering workshops I've had dealings with. You'll have to go to Google for contact details.
HJS Helicopters, Aberdeen. First Class
Aero Maintenance, Pontefract. Very helpful, and sorted out a problem for me at a very reasonable price.
Tiger Helicopters, Herefordshire. Avoid
London Helicopters, Redhill. Very good, very experienced. Not the cheapest, but they are based in an expensive location.
Heliair, Wycombe, Denham, Wellesbourne. Similar to London Helicopters. First class Robinson outfit.
TK Helicopters, Harwarden. Enstrom specialist. Small family run business
HFI Helicopters, Bedford. Small family run business. Great value, great people.
HeliMech, Milton Keynes. Really helpful, low overheads
Rise Helicopters, Gloucester. Smart, clean outfit, run by the very competent Chief Engineer, John. Very customer focussed.
Rotorspan, Worcester. Family run business. Honest, good value, excellent workmanship. My favourite UK-based outfit.
Air Technology, Kortreck, Belgium. These guys set the standard that UK places should aspire to. 6 Technicians, all under the age of 45, 1 Tec records person, one working owner manager. 1 hangar, about 400 sq meters plus mezzanine floor. They look after about 80 aircraft - very impressive. Perfect record keeping that even I could understand.
Feel free to PM me for more info.
Big Ls
it does depend on where you are based but here's a list of engineering workshops I've had dealings with. You'll have to go to Google for contact details.
HJS Helicopters, Aberdeen. First Class
Aero Maintenance, Pontefract. Very helpful, and sorted out a problem for me at a very reasonable price.
Tiger Helicopters, Herefordshire. Avoid
London Helicopters, Redhill. Very good, very experienced. Not the cheapest, but they are based in an expensive location.
Heliair, Wycombe, Denham, Wellesbourne. Similar to London Helicopters. First class Robinson outfit.
TK Helicopters, Harwarden. Enstrom specialist. Small family run business
HFI Helicopters, Bedford. Small family run business. Great value, great people.
HeliMech, Milton Keynes. Really helpful, low overheads
Rise Helicopters, Gloucester. Smart, clean outfit, run by the very competent Chief Engineer, John. Very customer focussed.
Rotorspan, Worcester. Family run business. Honest, good value, excellent workmanship. My favourite UK-based outfit.
Air Technology, Kortreck, Belgium. These guys set the standard that UK places should aspire to. 6 Technicians, all under the age of 45, 1 Tec records person, one working owner manager. 1 hangar, about 400 sq meters plus mezzanine floor. They look after about 80 aircraft - very impressive. Perfect record keeping that even I could understand.
Feel free to PM me for more info.
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Biggles,
you shouldn't knock engineering at Tiger, if I am correct your problem is with the main man, don't knock the lads who work in the Hangar, they are good guys, your own aircraft was well looked after there.
you shouldn't knock engineering at Tiger, if I am correct your problem is with the main man, don't knock the lads who work in the Hangar, they are good guys, your own aircraft was well looked after there.
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Quiche, it's the Company I suggested avoiding. I didn't mention the technicians who are working under very, very difficult conditions.
I removed our R22 that Tiger has been looking after when we discovered that our A109 parts - which we had paid for - were being used without our permission to keep Tiger's A109 in the air. This is a fact, not a rumour.
After this, how could I have any confident that the same thing wouldn't happen to the R22?
Trust is an essential part of engineer/pilot/customer relationship.
It's funny, I didn't want to get into another "Tiger" thread: I was simply responding to a genuine request from someone based in the UK who wanted some pointers relating to engineering companies. I hope I have helped - did you notice that there were many more positive comments than negatitve ones?
Big Ls.
I removed our R22 that Tiger has been looking after when we discovered that our A109 parts - which we had paid for - were being used without our permission to keep Tiger's A109 in the air. This is a fact, not a rumour.
After this, how could I have any confident that the same thing wouldn't happen to the R22?
Trust is an essential part of engineer/pilot/customer relationship.
It's funny, I didn't want to get into another "Tiger" thread: I was simply responding to a genuine request from someone based in the UK who wanted some pointers relating to engineering companies. I hope I have helped - did you notice that there were many more positive comments than negatitve ones?
Big Ls.
