Originally Posted by
2016parks
The question is, do you want untrained civilians rooting around in an open-doored aircraft, who can with one inadvertent pull or hook literally launch themselves into space? Not me. Strap 'em in tight and don't let them out of their seats.
I agree. Regular pax I would not like have them manipulating the harness.
Now, looking at the perspective that a door-off flight is not a regular flight, which does not use regular harness, it might be a enhanced briefing needed.
Same for my peers that are flying helicopter precision flying at low level. I was tighten up last year holding the buoy down and hanging out of the helicopter. I would have not had any chance to get off the heli in case of a emergency. I was locked into position tighten from my back. Until now I would never have questioned this. Now I certainly do.
At the competition no team had a quick release harness, except the pilot of course.
Swiss Helicopter Federation is giving this a second thought as of today.