Originally Posted by Cujet
The replacement pinion gears can't be used with the older ring gear we had (of course) so a replacement ring gear was required. Upon disassembly, there were a few "mandatory" service bulletins that were due upon overhaul (remember they really are not mandatory, but the overhauler has a policy of not giving the unit back until those are completed) (yes the replacement of more gears) and in the end, it took American Eurocopter(now Airbus) and ZF (the transmission gear maker) just over 9 months and $800,000 to fix a "non problem".
It's good that we have all new gears in our 1000 hour transmission. But we are now experiencing "chip" lights on a regular basis....
For a guy who drives a Camry my mind is blown at what a copter costs to keep going.
I get it, it goes with the territory: at work we'll spend up to a million to buy equipment to make things that cost a buck or whatever, but it always boggles my mind.