Pop-out floats
I'd be interested to hear of people's experiences of having to use pop-out floats in anger.
I'm now flying B206's fitted with these, and would like to see what other users reckon about things like:
- the best time to activate them in an auto
- how the aircraft flies during and after activation
- what they're like when you hit the water
- any other observations or thoughts on the matter.
I've operated with fixed floats a few times in a 205, and remember being particularly surprised at the huge shove of forward cyclic that was required on auto entry to stop the pitch-up. Obviously that wouldn't be needed with pop-out floats if you activated them in the latter stages of the flare, but what other things might come in to play?