Nick
You contributions to the forum are highly valued, for obvious reasons. And of course it's helpful when you point out theories/statements which are incorrect.
Whether you choose to enter into a discussion justifying your opinions is a matter of choice for you as far as I'm concerned.
Lu
You ask "How about the views of a Senior Reliability Maintainability and Systems Safety Engineering consultant .... How about my experience as a maintenance technician on Bell and Sikorsky Helicopters etc"
Hoverbover has already answered that question far more eloquently than I could.
I enjoy many of your posts, particularly the anecdotes. The problem is that you don't seem able to let your theories drop, and try to squeeze them into unrelated threads. (This one was about floats/ditching!)
You know as well as I do the effect that has had on so many contributors. They get fed up!
This doesn't happen with anybody else, but it constantly happens with you.
Let's try a new approach...
I get the feeling that people have now had enough of the 'problems' of gyroscopic precession and 18 degree rigging theories, and don't want either topic brought into other discussions so often, or at all.
Do you get the same impression?
What about letting them drop?