Originally Posted by
DiputadoVolador
I have had the complete opposite experience with MELs. I maybe had 2 in 2 years. But that is in the otter as opposed to the 402. But great flying and great experience.
When I wrote "beat to death 402's", what I really meant was barely airworthy. The company that I worked for had absolutely crap maintenance. Air Vegas and Eagle had much better maintained aircraft than we did. I would have given up really important body parts to have gotten to fly the Otter.