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I guess we have differing opinions on speculation then. I think it just spreads falsehoods, and does infinitely more harm than good. In a closed group, it is at best a form of intellectual sport, or chest puffing, which has its place for sure. At its worse, it can cause hurt to loved ones, like happened here a year ago when the son of the downed OMNR pilot was in here looking for answers.

Of course I have theories.
 
You are so right regarding what is considered speculation. Perhaps speculation should be left to stock traders and farmers. What I would think that we should be responsible her for is networking or brainstorming, in other words putting ideas out there for due consideration in a positive form. I have been in that situation looking for answers, tough call but sometimes information does make people who are lost feel comfort and that there may be a reason for what has occured. Most intelligent people can sort through the wheat and chaff in their own good time. For sure though scare tactics from ill informed people does nothing positive true enough.

Love to hear it some time.
 
Jammed left:

I didn't see a reply for your question about oil changes. At CHL, the hyd oil was done at the T insp. Many guys did it more frequently than that. What really got my interest was with the jetrangers, you ever see the Bell maint manual? You'd be surprised.
 
Surprised at what Magseal? .....how easy it is to read ??? (run away and hide :lol: 😀 )
 
yes, i will give you that. :up:

I will be honest though, the more you use the books the better it is. I hear the 130 and 120 books are far better as well. Maybe we can hope that the future will allow for a major revision of the old books too.
 
Magseal;

Although the Bell manual says 1000hrs I think most change at 100 hr intervals. Seems like a good idear ta me.
 
you're not kidding. i think 100hrs was the norm for most. i wonder though what 1000hr hydraulic oil would look, smell, or even taste like. :wacko:
 
depending upon which part of the world you are in and the filter used, either Newfie screech or mescal.
 
I heard today that a Canadian Astar in Quebec had a hydraulic failure back on December 8th and the pilot said the forces were much higher that he had seen in training and they were fore and aft, not lateral. Hee had 15000 hours. He was towing a bird and had to drop it because he couldn't hover, even though he had trained to put the bird down.

All that is fine, but Transport just found out about it which means that Canadian didn't tell anyone even though there was an AD against the hydraulic system!!!! Apparently Transport found out about the latest one 'by accident' as well. How would you like to work for a company that held back information on two incedents in a system thats the subject of an AD????? :down: :down: Not good.
 
😱 Skullcap, Maybe you should re-read my post but this time keep this in mind. My comment on the A-Star was in quotation meaning I was simply reiterating what I was told by the Check-pilot while he was giving me my introduction to type and with my limited time on type I agreed with his comment. As I mentioned in my previous post I'am far from an expert, and highly respect the opinions of those pilots that do fly it and there concerns, which if you have been reading this topic is raising concerns by AStar pilots like yourself. Maybe you mis-interpreted my post? In highlighting the 205's shortcommings on an Helicopter I do have a lot of experience with, I was simply trying to highlight that regardless of type we need to work collectively to resolve these problems.

And yes, I'am very aware of who reads these forums the picture was to hit home to all of us what happens when we don't react to these problems!!!! Which judging by your rebuttle seems to have worked! I wasn't trying to engage you in a pissing match over types or use scare tactics. My apologies if this picture affended you our your counterparts, however this picture is found in Aircraft Mishaps on this site. I thought it pretty much summed up the point, That is if we don't address these problems we will always be faced with these types of results.

So relax there oldtimer,I'am not disagreeing withyou, quite the opposite actually! <_<

Cheers BD6
 
Mag seal:

Thanks for the reply...I ask because I'm interested in the idea that was floated by the TC fellow recently about water contam in the fluid perhaps caused by condensation from heating and cooling of the machine...and maybe some companies haven't been experiencing the same issue because the oil is getting changed out. It seems to follow some kind of logic....and I find that the answer to these types of things usually do follow some type of logic....sometimes

As for the BH06 1000hr hydralic fluid...glad I've never seen it either!
 
Hey BD6;

No problem, sorry bout that, trigger mechanism gets rather worn with time sort of like, well you know who.

Don't be afraid of one of these plastic beasts, but they're so quiet, you may not like it compared to all that noise of a twin huey(kinda like the sound a twin pac spooling up on final myself though).

WOXOF;

Oooh scary, had hydraulic failure in cold, had to drop bird. PS harder to fly Astar in cold winter day with load than training in summer. If bird not meant to be dropped shouldn't be called bird and hung on cargo hook. A/c is ok so is pilot. Fella few years ago bet he wishes he dropped the damn bird.

Last incident still has no results, still waiting though, still doing my checks, still got head up.

Take no offence dude but don't be flapping on about how bad another company is unless you been there, done that. Worked for the big bird over a decade and had nothing but the best training and got paid what they said they'd pay me for. There is a lot of professional types there that were doing your job when I was chowing down on a fudgecycle, and they were kids working for a big helicopter company when they started. History, respect, not dollars and fuggit, kinda tired of the crap throwing.

####! Damn trigger.

SC
 
chairmanofthebored, question for you regarding your comments post on page 6. Does freedom of speech include slandering another pilots name?
I think cyclic monkey was a little to kind to you in his rebuttal(also on page 6).I think we have enough people trying to blame us pilots,without us jumping on each other.
If you insist on your rights to freedom of speech. The least you could do would be to put your signature on your post.
 
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