Hopefully there will be some interesting answers about autorotation and other safety aspects after today's events...:ooh:
I am being inundated out here offshore with questions about Bond (we don't use them - at the moment), autorotations, why has everything else been grounded (no flight from ABZ until further notice), etc etc ad nauseam.
Safety Reps and offshore logistics don't usually have the answers immediately, I've got 7 blokes waiting for today's chopper and they're none too happy....
Some days we need a LOT of reassurance from the guys up front, it's human nature :hmm:

grounding of the helis temporarily may have been to keep the area clear for SAR operations..... :ok:

Naa.. if you want to find a real sanctimonious @rsehole try the Fixed Wing threads..

coatimundi, not sure which operator you use but we have not grounded anything, we are just being ultra cautious and carrying out some extra checks on the gbx / lube system. Not expecting to find anything, but we take your (and our!) safety very seriously and sorry but it is worth delaying the flights for 1/2 a day to allow the engineers to do their work without time pressure, just to check there are no latent issues. I am sure normal service will be resumed tomorrow!

AFAIK the aircraft didn't autorotate, it made a twin-engine power-on (controlled) ditching.

HC

we are just being ultra cautious
 

Thank you HC for bringing some sanity to this thread. It is always good to hear the expert view. I'm not a great believer in "experts" but you are the exception that proves the rule.

The recent Bond incident is unfortunate but thankfully not disasterous with no fatalities and as you say was a controlled ditching under power. We all await the cause with some anticipation.

Under these circumstances Engineering need time to decide what needs to be checked and then carry out the check and given these circumstances, without any time pressure.

Sq

No Fly!
 

A large chunk of the no fly today was apparently an air traffic thing. The news says Bond will not fly 225s tomorrow but will review that decision tomorrow evening at 6. Maybe they have some info that will need to be considered tomorrow, if it is important I hope it is shared with all.

I hope to see ops returned to normal soon. Perhaps it's because I believe in karma - many hours on Lynx will do that - perhaps it's because I'm booked to fly in with Bond on Tuesday.

Well done to the two blokes up-front yesterday.