AdamZ
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So why is it that Helicopter Pilots wear helmets?
I've wanted to wear a helmet with the top down in the convertible, when you realize your head is out there about even with the top of the windshield. I don't think I could clear the headliner wearing one in the plane. I've brushed up against it with a Lightspeed headband....By the way at work I wear a helmet 100% of the time in fixed wing aircraft too. The only reason I don't in my personal plane is because I am too foolish to do so.
Soft headsSo why is it that Helicopter Pilots wear helmets?
same as motorcycles, so they can have an open casket.
ok good chuckles but any serious answers.
Ted I don't see the guys in the R-22 and R-44s flying with them or even the Fancy boeing and corp Helos but so many of them do wear helmets all the Med Evac guys all the military guys, some of the Nes guys. Perhaps its just an " employer " requirment
ok good chuckles but any serious answers.
I have 125 hours in helicopters and a commercial add-on and I've never worn a helmet. It never even occured to me to ask that question.
normally you'd see the eye piece attached to a helmet, but to prove my point about the thing Apache pilots put over their eye...
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C'Mon. We know all about that. It was in a really bad movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Nick Cage.
C'Mon. We know all about that. It was in a really bad movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Nick Cage.
Well first of all, yes, the helmets do protect pilots from the rotors in the case that the rotors go through the cockpit glass for some reason
Also, for Apache pilots, there is a sort of computerized eye thing in their helmets that they use for... I think... targeting... and infra-red and stuff like that