Okay, a couple of things...and I apologize in advance for a bit of thread drift.
SASless says:
But then PHI had some interesting ideas like putting the Engine Start Switch on the cyclic so one could ALWAYS have both hands on the flight controls even during the start procedure......as if a pair of knees would not trap the Cyclic and keep it from moving....
You misunderstand why PHI did that - it's actually the opposite. For one thing, the PHI Ops Manual specified that pilots use sufficient friction to keep the cyclic from moving if you remove your hand. (They did not specify whether this was for ground or air ops.) The starter-on-the-cyclic was so that a pilot could "fly" the cyclic during a startup in high winds. Sometimes on an offshore platform you want the cyclic positioned all the way to a stop to prevent excessive flapping during those first few rotations. But as the rotor comes up to speed you need to get the cyclic back toward neutral to prevent the hub-stops from bumping. LongRanger blades start "flying" almost immediately, but those short, square-tipped B-model blades take a few turns before the cyclic becomes effective. It helps to be able to move the cyclic around during offshore starts. After a while this setup seems perfectly normal, and the stock configuration seems awkward and dumb.
I've flown many, many, many 206's that had a different beep range between cold and hot. You'd start the ship up in the cool/cold of the morning and maybe only get 98-99% max N2. Then you make a short flight, everything warms up and now your beep range is a proper 98-100%. If you shut it down and call a mechanic over to reset the beep range, by the time he gets there the engine will have heat-soaked, the beep range will be proper, and the mechanic will send you off thinking you're full of something that comes out of the south end of a northbound bull.
There is a certain amount of artistry or black magic in getting a 206 FCU and governor set up correctly. They're nice when they're new, but (it seems that) almost as soon as the components start accumulating hours things start to get loosey-goosey. I guess FADEC would help there.