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The worry on 206's was burning up engines on starts not having the rotor system flopping about the place.
I always thought that moving the start switch to the cyclic was one of the slickest ideas ever. Who cares whether it was to prevent rotor flopping or hot starts...it was clever and worked fine, right? Same with pro-sealing the skin seams on a nude aircraft, plastic bathtub on the floor in the backseat, and the wood floor in baggage compartment etc. All good ideas born from years of experience.
Sorry for the thread drift but in my 10+ years in maintenance at PHI (including bouncing around the back seat of Maintenance One, behind my boss Chuckie) I always felt I could call BS and be listened to. Unlike a certain smaller operator I worked for down in Pearland, Texas....