Automatic Floats
I have had a hell of a job convincing folk that the AW139 automatic floats should be operated in the way they were designed to be operated ie. ARMED whenever over conducting (extended) flight over water.
There are those that come for their 139 type rating who have previously been told that floats (on their previous types) should only be armed below a certain airspeed and don't want to change that technique when they learn that the 139 has a different design..... they don't seem to get it .,..... the 139's system was designed to be operated that way and if you don't arm them when over water you may invite catastrophe ..... and you go against the RFM.
What say you now?
Please don't revist the 'inadvertant inflation in flight argument'. This has NEVER happened on the 139 but there are quite a few examples where a truly automatic system may have helped to save lives.
What are you going to go with, something that has never happened before or something that has? Get your calculators out and do the maths on 'probability'.
G