Nice, reliable easy to fly and maintain helicopter, I always felt safe in the 206B but like others have said the seat was a problem, you couldn't stay in there for long without developing back and shoulder problems.
As for Cabin heaters (here in Canada) there was 3 kinds that I am aware of at least when I was flying them, it was the "Casey heater", also a gas operated heater I think they were called "Southwind heaters" and another bleed air system but can't remember the name.
The Southwind heater was delicate to operate and you had to be polite with it specially in cold weather like below minus 15/20 deg C. More heat would equal to more fuel in the heater and sometimes they would catch fire, it did to me and burned the back end of a 206 by the time I landed and used the extinguisher.
I learned my trade on them, learned to use finesse because of them.
Like they used to say "206B, perfect at nothing but good at everything"
JD
Last edited by fijdor; 29th Jan 2013 at 14:17.