Originally Posted by
Thilo
Thanks Outwest. If I recall correctly, the original FM did not specify the PIC seat. Aerospatiale changed it after TC found out. Several Canadian colleagues told me that they really enjoyed the "left-hand" drive sling days.
As far as I understand the present left-hand configuration, it is taken from the EC130, and therefore even closer to the "window".
There must be someone here who has got some pictures, and hopefully sling experience.
Let us know please.
Thilo
You may be right about how that all came about, my memory from 40 years ago is a bit foggy
Taller guys did better with the right seat hole in the floor and bubble window but shorter guys like me got no use out of the bubble window so it was real challenge to try and do production siesmic thru that small hole. Also since most of my longline experience up to that point had been from the left ( Hughes 500, 204 and 205) I am way more comfortable leaning over the collective.