What about helicopters needs fixing?
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Hi all,
Here's my five.
1 Lower cost of acquisition and operation.
2 Make it hard to break and easy to fix.
3 Make it a generalist ie. good for O/S, EMS, ......but easy to specialize.
4 Standardize updates and options, where I work we have 4 412s and not one of them has the same electrical schematic, my mechs love this undocumented feature. Perhaps empty switch panels and CB's like on automobiles with designated relays and such for add ons.
5 Make it easy to sell. I can tell my customer that what they fly is the wrong aircraft for what they do but it's hard to tell them what the right one is. The current alternatives either have too many negatives or have priced themselves out of consideration.
An example of this at work would be the 407, the off-shore vendors could show that 2 407s replaced three or sometimes more 206s and though they cost more per air frame actually saved the customer money through greater capability and efficiency.
My specific wish would be for a single pilot IFR twin, room for two patients, two medics, or four medics with an isolette, 150 kt vh, 350 mi range w/reserves at vh. I'd like to keep it full of fuel on the pad and still be able to pick up two 300 lb patients 5 minutes away and climb vertically to 100' before accelerating. I'd also like to be able to see well outside day and night. Price this at 3.5 to 4.5 million and keep the DOCs low and I'd beat feet to the boss's door.
Sincerely,
Brian Long
Here's my five.
1 Lower cost of acquisition and operation.
2 Make it hard to break and easy to fix.
3 Make it a generalist ie. good for O/S, EMS, ......but easy to specialize.
4 Standardize updates and options, where I work we have 4 412s and not one of them has the same electrical schematic, my mechs love this undocumented feature. Perhaps empty switch panels and CB's like on automobiles with designated relays and such for add ons.
5 Make it easy to sell. I can tell my customer that what they fly is the wrong aircraft for what they do but it's hard to tell them what the right one is. The current alternatives either have too many negatives or have priced themselves out of consideration.
An example of this at work would be the 407, the off-shore vendors could show that 2 407s replaced three or sometimes more 206s and though they cost more per air frame actually saved the customer money through greater capability and efficiency.
My specific wish would be for a single pilot IFR twin, room for two patients, two medics, or four medics with an isolette, 150 kt vh, 350 mi range w/reserves at vh. I'd like to keep it full of fuel on the pad and still be able to pick up two 300 lb patients 5 minutes away and climb vertically to 100' before accelerating. I'd also like to be able to see well outside day and night. Price this at 3.5 to 4.5 million and keep the DOCs low and I'd beat feet to the boss's door.
Sincerely,
Brian Long
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Nick,
Thanks for explaining about the ACPD.
Hey Nick,
The ACPD on our other machine isn't working!
Thanks for explaining about the ACPD.
Hey Nick,
The ACPD on our other machine isn't working!
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To cover some of the offshore industry needs, which is going increasingly farther out, 150-250 nm. out I think the 5 things would be:
- Range/speed with full IFR reserve
- Ergonomical laid out cockpit, meaning seats, instrumentation, more effective noise cancelling and vibration free cockpit, aircondition, sunvisors.
- more presice autopilots reliable down to around 40 kts for IFR rig approaches( 70 kts today )
- Larger passenger cabins and cargo space
- Better customer support!
More and more pilots are loosing their medical licence due to "Tinintus" and bad hearing. This is a mayor problem for pilots flying SuperPuma`s of all types but most the MKII.
- Range/speed with full IFR reserve
- Ergonomical laid out cockpit, meaning seats, instrumentation, more effective noise cancelling and vibration free cockpit, aircondition, sunvisors.
- more presice autopilots reliable down to around 40 kts for IFR rig approaches( 70 kts today )
- Larger passenger cabins and cargo space
- Better customer support!
More and more pilots are loosing their medical licence due to "Tinintus" and bad hearing. This is a mayor problem for pilots flying SuperPuma`s of all types but most the MKII.
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I agree with the first reply.
Less noise for more public acceptance.
Lower DOC's to reduce seat costs.
Better infrastructure.
Good 300nm useful IFR range.
Always reliability and good ergonomics.
Less noise for more public acceptance.
Lower DOC's to reduce seat costs.
Better infrastructure.
Good 300nm useful IFR range.
Always reliability and good ergonomics.
