helmets
 

I went AEF flying in a tutor last week and was wondering why do we have to wear helmets?

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

5. To stop your brain from oozing out.

6. Incase you forget your sickbag

7. To keep the noise out.
8. Cause its the rules.

Tonks

And, by golly, you've got to look cool.... ;)

ShyT

9) To make you uncomfortable (practice for future postings)

To stop your head getting too big (applicable to fighter pilots only).

11) To sap your capacity so you know what it feels like when you get a bit faster..... :cool:

To protect you from slaps from your instructor (grobs and firefly!) ;)

(13)If you didn't wear them, they'd roll around all over the place and get in the way.

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!!!!!

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...

16. To make you realise civil aviation is lots more comfortable.

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.

Many a true word spoken in jest BEags old chap ------ oh sorry you weren't jesting! ;) :p :D

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.

With the JHF being a purple force, does that mean that all rotaries are purple helmets? :D

Doubt it - they wear their helmets on their heads. So purple helmets on the head would make them............