When you''re busy pretending about all the Astars and pilots suddenly becoming unavailable ....don''t forget that the Canadian Heli industry is flush with excess aircraft these days, Perhaps those needy Fire Fighters, Miners, and Seismic folks will have to switch to 500''s, 206''s, Mediums, etc, etc. It may surprise you, but in those long ago pre-Astar years, these old aircraft did handle all the business of Canada!
I get your initial point...but until EC has a fix for the HYD system in 350''s, these problems will continue.
TC doesn''t think along your lines on how important the fleet is to Industry, etc, if they perceive a problem, they issue and AD.