So it is your contention that floats add nothing to the safety of a flopper flying day in and day out over water?
That imagining the result with floats is off the wall?
Pilots spend hours going over accidents trying to determine how they could have been avoided.
Maybe floats would not have made a difference here, but I would bet the pilot of that machine would beg for them.
I’ve done this sort of training before. Submerged in a pool buckled into a chopper fuselage while it rotates upside down. You instantly lose your bearings and have difficulty even finding the escape hatch open lever that is right next to you. Unless you prepare by having physical reference points (like we were trained) then it’s very very difficult to escape. And if you unbuckle in a panic before the chopper stops moving then you float out of your seat and it’s even harder to find the escape hatch.
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There you go with your imagination again!
I didn’t say that.