Originally Posted by
surfandturf
..These Apical floats have a pull cable system and you need to shear a pin in the handle, this ends up being a two hand operation. Left hand comes off the collective to hold the cyclic, right hand grabs a hold of the handle pull with all you got. Its a solid 45 degrees or more of throw you need to pull them full travel. That's not a move you want to be doing at 40-50 feet either...
Really, I mean, how agricultural is that? As daft as it was having one bottle per side, having a mechanical activation system as you describe is dafter still. I'm just gob-smacked how this float installation got an STC. Haven't they heard of electric squibs with manual backup, dual partition float bags and crossflow manifolds?