India-made Dhruv choppers restricted from flying in Equador after mishaps

[Tshering22]

If the EAF training standards were poor, then it would effect all aircraft's not just the HAL built helicopters. Considering they have had very little problems with the bells and eurocopters, I doubt they are that bad. Or is it that indians refuse to believe their ALH could be at fault.

We operate more than 200 of them in our military.

We do it daily, day in and day out, in terrains that range from the hostile 50+ degrees of Thar desert to the -30 degrees of the cold and hostile himalayas; from the stifling humidity of the coastal plains to the dense rain forests.

And nothing happens to the Dhruvs at even a tenth the scale at which EAF has lost its Dhruv fleet.

Ecuador has a uniform terrain and uniform climatic conditions and still they were not able to identify the root cause of their crashes.

Either this is an industrial sabotage attempt or simply that they are not ready to fly high altitude helicopters. Especially when their supplier country is having no such issues.

 

[Hindustani78]

Hope spare issues won't affect our future LCH fleets.

Already the spares issues have been sorted out . Second Assembly line means 24 Helicopters in one year.