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A fix is apparantly on its way for the Cormorants. The composite tail rotors are going to be replaced by an all titanium tail rotor, which EH is current developing as of right now.
FoverF said:And please feel free to ignore the 'various civilian aviation experience' part.
I am a 3rd generation pilot, and grew up at airports. I eat, sleep, and breathe aviation. I started washing airplanes when I was five, and have worked professionally in the industry since I was 17. I have taken various courses, such as the ACST course at SAIT (GPA of 3.96), and have a couple years AME'ing under my belt (M1, and S-licence apprentice), and worked at a flight school for a few years. I have a decent amount of flight time on everything from gliders to Westjet's 737-200 sims, and have lived and flown for 23 years with flight instructors (one of whom is an instructor for WestJet, and the other is the single most experienced flgiht instructor in Canada, with the most students, and ~40,000 hours). I have declined to take the tests to get my commercial licence on the advice of several people in the aircrew selection process.
aesop081 said:Ok so you have aviation experience. So do i. The guys responding to your coment have some too.
aesop081 said:I'm still waiting for your ESM experience resume.
CTD said:My concern with buying all one fleet of Helo's is when they have a major issue such as the Cormorant has then your whole fleet if grounded or at least highly restricted in it's operations.
To me I would rather have a little of this and a little of that to fullfill our roles of SAR, ASW and troop transport then to have a lot of any one airframe.
CTD said:At the end of the day. I think that the EH101 is a decent helo, has alot of good features and is capable of alot of good flying. All we need is a permanent fix for it's hub problems.
The fact that the S92 has been around for a few years already and has had a pretty flawless record of flying shows that it is a good airframe
Maintenance may be common for AVN techs
Inch said:The point is that we're doing things with this aircraft that SAR pilots just don't do, IE landing on pitching and rolling ships at sea among other things.