bush pilot you have to fuel yourself
rotorboy
You're a brave man admitting to that
(b) the helicopter is fitted with a serviceable means of locking the cyclic and collective controls;
John
I believe to the letter of the law here in Aus that doesn't include friction locks, bit of a grey area that one if you can believe that!
There is countless events of R22's taking aviation into their own hands with pilots forgetting to put the bunjy over the collective. Some very interesting stories there.
It amazes me that you can't get out of a machine on fixed floats. They do have a bit of give and the machine wobbles around a bit but for that very reason it is probably the most stable platform you could have.
Does that include fixed floats where the skid gear is in contact with the ground ie R44, H500?