Originally Posted by IO540
That's reasonable, although my approach is to forget the life jacket and carry a raft 100% of the time;
This has been rehearsed several times both here and on the Flyer forums, but I'm really very uncomfortable with suggesting to anybody that carrying a life raft ever removes the need for lifejackets.
Even if everything goes right for you and your pax, getting into a liferaft can be exhausting - and that's without the raft inflating inverted, or the water being especially cold etc. Without a lifejacket to provide bouyancy, you may well never make it.
A lifejacket is the absolute minimum in my opinion, and professional survival trainers and SAR personnel would appear to agree.