alfred
Veteran
Location: Australia, New South Wales, Mid North Coast
| Let's do some logic thinking.
The heli is about a year old since it came on the market.
It is being sold world wide, so we can assume that there are at least 200+ out there in usage.
There is 52 weeks in a year.
Assuming that average Joe bloke flies at least 2 flights every 2nd weekend that gives us 200 x 26 = 5200 flights.
Five thousand two hundred flights (and this would be a very conservative figure), we have one single failure that nobody knows yet why.
I am more then happy to take that.
To me they are excellent odds.
Let's see it in another way.
Over the years, I would have seen or been told or have read every single brand and every single model having crashed through a part failure.
On a recent large event here, another well known top of the line heli blew the Head apart. I own one of these and it's a big 90 by a company that has 20+ years in the business.
It was established that one of the blade holders let go.
The heli had a crash at some stage in it's life and I didn't see anybody running back straight to the company asking to have all their Blade holders replaced at no cost.
Nor did there go out a cry over the Net that this brand/model shouldn't be purchased due to serious flaws.
The only one that knows the type of life and the history of the model is the owner. Field Rep or not, if he thinks that there is an issue, then at the minimum, he is going to go back to the Manufacturer and discuss the incident with them and take appropriate actions IF required.
One thing we do know is that this Manufacturer is very, very quick to update the design or manufacturing if there appears to be a pattern of problems that Owners encounter.
This pattern has not been established by one single incident.
It's good to be reported, but let's not yell out that the sky is falling down |
