Transmission chip detector scenario
Last week, we made a 110 nm flight in a 75 hour TT Bell 407, of which 50 miles was over cold water across Cook Inlet in Alaska, with the balance across mountains. On descent, we got a transmission chip light, at 500 AGL on descent to our destination.
If we had gotten that same light, 25 miles from the closest shore, it would have been a different scenario then on final descent. Three questions:
1) what secondary indications of a real transmission problem would be expected -- for example, transmission temp and pressure, and noise?
2) at what altitude and airspeed would you fly in case the situation deteriorated?
3) under what scenario would you pop the floats and put it in the water?
Thanks.
PS: It turned out to be a bit of fuzz so small we couldn't ever see it, but that went away after blowing off the lower transmission chip detector probe with an air compressor.