Thanks guys :most helpful
I seem to remember a photo of a Robin which ditched in the Irish sea remaining afloat indefinitely; but of course wood floats quite well.
I did buy, in response to an ad in Pilot I think a reconditioned immersion suit for about GBP100 a few years ago from SEMS aerosafe.
Seemed like a good bargain, but when I got it, unlike the picture in the ad, it had a ruddy great rubber hood, quite incompatible with my lifejacket, and flying gear. it still had Exxon on it was was clearly ex rig cr*p. I would have looked a real plonker climbing onto the tarmac at LFAT on a warm spring day.
Infortunately I just shoved it in a cupboard and forgot about it. When friends wiser than me suggested I get my money back SEMS wouldn't play, suggesting (probably quite rightly) that I had waited too long. There's a moral there some where.
I might just save up my pennies for a new purpose made suit for light A/c (you know-the one with the diagonal zip).
The message also seems to be that an Arrow doesn't float for long,that the channel is B****y cold whatever the time of year, and I need to go on a survival/immersion course.
Anyone know where I can get details?
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Cusco