Nomad, I have the same helmet and real happy with it. Your point about the safety of passengers is the same I tried to point out earlier. I read a report about a guy flying a jetranger a couple of years ago. A swan, or something similar got him full in the face! he lost the use of one eye and was pretty badly bruised, he did land the aircraft. Had he not been wearing a helmet he would have probably lost both eyes, control of the aircraft, his, and his passengers lives, in that order.