As350 Problems?

[Hoss]

Heard a Rumor that the astars where now a two crew environment...and warm weather ops only (-15 temp limit)... :shock:

[Puddle Jumper]

Is this a joke? Has anyone else heard this?? I certainly hope you are mistaken or joking. :shock: However I did hear that the OMNR has now put out a new rule that employees cannot fly in rotary wing aircraft with outside temperatures below -25c. This rule applies to both OMNR machines and contract operators. Maybe the 2 stories were somehow mixed up.

[T-rex]

I heard a rumor that if you haven't had any recurrent 'hydraulic's off' flight in the past two years that you will not be able to fly an Astar once the two years is up!!!!! What do we do next??? Mag? CTD? Anything on this?

[Firehawk]

If that is the case, I dont think many should have a problem as Hydraulics off should me part of recurrent and PPC each year. If its not I think theres issues and your company isnt doing a good job at keeping you current on emergencies.

[WOXOF]

Firehawk, where you been? There has been an AD out since last year about turning off hydraulics in the Astar. Nobody can turn them off for training.

 

There was another incident last week in ontario where an Astar had a hard left cyclic input. The pilot could not control it and turned the hyd back on, that's all I know. If he could not control it, that's probably why the two-pilot thing.

 

The new AD is not on the Transport website yet, but there were 7 ADs against the Astar last year with 8 against the B3. The 206L had none, and the 407 had one. You would think that after 25 years they'd do a little better than that. I wonder why anyone still buys these things, they are nothing but trouble and Aerospat doesn't support them at all. :down:

[407 Driver]

Good points WOXOF, it seems that after 26 years of Astars, some of these problems should have been taken care of by now, why are we seeing the same old issues time and time again.

Wake up Aerospat (EC) it's time to deal with the problems, start by designing a real HYD system !

[Firehawk]

Well I guess that there is a problem then . I havent flown the Astar in 4 years, I guess that's why I didnt know about the AD on it.

Sorry about that, Well I guess its official now the 407 will be taking over the world since there will be nobody left to fly them in a years time.

[407 Driver]

Are you at home relaxing this week Firehawk? We just had Dan C in the hangar for a visit, he told us some interesting stories about you from the NMH days !!!!!!

[Firehawk]

407, You let that character in your hanger? Oh thats bad news, Dont believe a word he says unless its all good.

He doesnt go by Dan, we refer to him as Mr.Flint. You can let your imagination run from there. Yes Iam relaxing at home till tomorrow then Iam off to the big city of Abbotsford for a day of flying. Then back to the Monashees to relax some more.

Its pretty hard to call that work there.

[Puddle Jumper]

This is getting scary.