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No, she said the customer paid $75k in a month. The club surely gets a large chunk of that.

Sorry to be a bummer. I'm glad you work for a good company.

I work in helicopter maintenance, so I'm a bit cynical about civilian helicopters and the maintenance practices of companies. So many don't realize that inspections and flight hour limitations for parts aren't just there for the OEM to make money.

Which is exactly what this AMA is.

and all maintenance is in-house.

Which sadly means it's probably not done or not done properly.

Edit: lol being downvoted by people who probably know absolutely nothing about aviation maintenance.

That's why experienced stress engineers get paid a bunch of money. It's a lot 'easier' these days with finite element analysis methods, but you have to be super careful with FEA, garbage in/garbage out is a huge danger. It's easy to fall into the "ooo pretty colors" trap.

In addition to good engineers, good maintenance workers are worth their weight in gold. At the end of the day, it's the quality of the work done by the guy/gal blending out a gouge or bucking a rivet that's ensuring that something doesn't break.

And that's really only talking about structural stuff (which is what I do). The people working on the spinny bits both in engineering and on the labor side deserve a huge amount of credit.