EASA: Single-Engine Ban For PAX

[Winnerhofer]

No more single-engine for PAX!
Une nouvelle réglementation européenne inquiète les exploitants d?hélicoptères, Aéronautique - Défense

[mac oz]

references to air-ops are welcome

[Boudreaux Bob]

Twins only for passengers....well why not just require Tandem Rotors while they are at it!

[BOBAKAT]

Two main gear Box and 2 tail rotor + 2 Pilot and a flight attendant... I think that fine.....

[hueyracer]

Of course the aircrafts must be fully IFR-equipped, the pilots IFR-trained, with oxygen on board (just in case), and NVG-goggles as well…

Parachutes might help as well….just in case….

And floats-even if not flying over the ocean at all…

Ah-emersion suits!

What else?
What´s next?

[212man]

It may have been nice to have given a reference, rather than conjecture....

[fatmanmedia]

this has to be a joke, right?

i've been flown many times in light singles and have never felt unsafe, surly this is a con to get people to buy new twins, maybe prop up airbus heli's sales.

Fats

[Mars]

Wise up will you!

The regulations that are being referred to in the piece are those which have been extant for almost 15 years. The quotation from Dominique Orbeque was very amusing:

"Regulatory constraints are much less important to our European neighbours".

The rules in question had been transposed to EASA OPS from Appendix 1 to JAR-OPS 3.005(d) - HEMS; and Subpart I - Performance Class 3.

Mars

[Notar fan]

Personally I hope this is true, because it may light the fire under the debate on the culture of finger pointing, arse covering, and aircraft grounding that the EU aviation and transport regulations have created and love to foster.

The only aircraft that the aviation authorities want to see is the ones that are on the ground. That way aviation is safe.

[CRAZYBROADSWORD]

On the ground ? What if someone walks into it ! Lots of pointy bits on helicopters best just leave them in the box

[mdovey]

Ooooh, boxes are dangerous things.

Just think of the back injuries if someone tries to lift one without realising there's a helicopter still in it!

[alouette]

Either way, this is what happens when these fixed-wing dick§"$%& have a say on helicopter regulations. They should care about your own damn business, because every time one of their planes go down, we chopper pilots go out there to save their a$%es! Single or twin-engine.