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I went AEF flying in a tutor last week and was wondering why do we have to wear helmets?
Perky Penguin
24th Oct 2001, 20:08
1. To meet Health & Safety requirements
2. To hold your earphones so you can hear
3. To support your microphone so you can speak
4. To protect your head if you crash or bail out
Whipping Boy's SATCO
24th Oct 2001, 20:13
5. To stop your brain from oozing out.
6. Incase you forget your sickbag
Tonkenna
24th Oct 2001, 21:39
7. To keep the noise out.
8. Cause its the rules.
Tonks
ShyTorque
24th Oct 2001, 21:45
And, by golly, you've got to look cool.... ;)
ShyT
cyclic
24th Oct 2001, 22:01
9) To make you uncomfortable (practice for future postings)
Art Field
24th Oct 2001, 22:57
To stop your head getting too big (applicable to fighter pilots only).
Olly O'Leg
24th Oct 2001, 23:30
11) To sap your capacity so you know what it feels like when you get a bit faster..... :cool:
Bervie
24th Oct 2001, 23:41
To protect you from slaps from your instructor (grobs and firefly!) ;)
fobotcso
25th Oct 2001, 01:10
(13)If you didn't wear them, they'd roll around all over the place and get in the way.
Wholigan
25th Oct 2001, 01:36
14. To stop your head from hurting when you clatter it on the canopy during all the flick manoeuvres we're no longer allowed to do 'cos some halfwit doesn't know how to write an aircraft manual!!!!!
gaycowboy
25th Oct 2001, 19:27
15) it gives the QFI something to slap the sink plunger on to make you do your lookout. I was doing it honest. dark visor down...
Herod
25th Oct 2001, 19:50
16. To make you realise civil aviation is lots more comfortable.
BEagle
25th Oct 2001, 21:17
So that when you bang your head against something at the frustration of having a dismal glider-aileron induced roll rate, it doesn't hurt!
Of course, Wholi', had someone specified a decent rate of roll in the first place you wouldn't need to use techniques banned throughout the rest of Part Time Command in order to persuade the little $od to roll at an acceptable rate!! Specifying independant attitude systems, normal military aerobatic manoeuvres, no restrictions on fuel load would have been a tad handy as well, I understand.
Wholigan
25th Oct 2001, 22:07
Many a true word spoken in jest BEags old chap ------ oh sorry you weren't jesting! ;) :p :D
Wholigan
9th Nov 2001, 19:43
I need to resurrect this just to clarify a point!
Previously, I said: "To stop your head from hurting when you clatter it on the canopy during all the flick manoeuvres we're no longer allowed to do 'cos some halfwit doesn't know how to write an aircraft manual!!!!!"
It was - quite rightly - pointed out to me that this was a tad ambiguous. What the words "aircraft manual" refer to is the Grob Manufacturer's Flight Manual. The Aircrew Manual, produced by the RAF, is a good document with which I have no problems. Happy now RM?? :D ;)
Bla Bla,
if you Poms stopped wearing alpha helmets made out of lead and wore decent helmets like the Gentex 55p you wouldnt be complaining.
Ralf Wiggum
16th Nov 2001, 21:40
With the JHF being a purple force, does that mean that all rotaries are purple helmets? :D
BEagle
17th Nov 2001, 20:33
Doubt it - they wear their helmets on their heads. So purple helmets on the head would make them............
'Would rather wear the purple helmet than be one!
Ralf Wiggum
17th Nov 2001, 21:20
Chill KBF 1. Like an old trout matey - you probably smell a bit and enjoy swimming against the tide (ie Uphill) but you bite mighty fine. Rotary boy are we? :D