Stats?
Does anyone have any figures for how many helicopter flights are taken over the irish sea or the English channel every year with A/C that do not have floats? Also how many of them have to ditch. I can't remember any happening in the past few years. Where are the hard facts for this supposed increase in safety? It seems to me to be a restriction on people's freedom. I hate the fact that a faceless European institution it trying to reduce our freedom to fly.
Time to pull out of Europe and all the !!!! is stands for.