Bart wrote
I gotta say that the trigger assembly on the collective leaves a lot
to be desired. It seems like it'd be way too easy to accidentally
deploy the things by bumping that mammoth trigger.

Bart

You want want to look around at some operators like PHI. They had a
modifiction where they moved the collective-mounted float switch to
the cyclic with a guarded switch.
You might find this mod a little more confortable.
Greg