ORIGINAL: seanreit
I don't even know if hours count is accurate, cause damn, when Jetcat came out with engine install kits, I quit keeping count of hours on engines cause the damn jetcats, it didn't seem to matter how many hours they were running, they just would not stop!
i think we'd agree one would in most occurrences have more flight experience from 10 hours of flight time then if they'd taken off, turned a 180 then shot an approach and landed, came to a complete stop, turned the turbine off, started it back up and then did the same and logged 200 flights in a single day.
on our helis here at Rucker we keep track of airframe hours as a primary, you're supposed to log the number of auto's, number of landings and so on and so forth but nobody counts much more then hours, engines are tracked by hours and number of starts as well as HIT (health indication test) checks. the only reference to number of flights are in the log book (DA 2408-13-1) where write ups consist of examples such as..........'Flight 1 OK' next entry 'Flight 2 OK' next entry 'Flight 3 PNVS not cooled', etc....... and these are simply to let
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