sirs: concerning rafts and access to them upon ditching, apical industries has developed and received faa certification for a raft system that deploys when the emergency floats are deployed. the rafts themselves are contained within the floats bags and then are fired seperatley from the floats themselves, so as not to inflate until a.c is on the water. to date the system is available on the md 902, shortly on the a119, and in testing for the bell 407, 412, eurocopter 350, 120,130.