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Ned, acknowledging that you are a professional, if the FAA signs off on your quick release, in what ever shape the release and the approval ends up in, please take my advice about the release handle location being on your harness, where you always know it is. Then you don't have to look for it, can pull it with either hand, when blinded, when doused with fuel, or otherwise disoriented. The FAA doesn't really have you best interest at heart. Just what they think is reasonable doesn't make it so. In fact, my opinion is that it is very likley you know considerably more than their inspector about what you need to do and some helicopter operations.