Sasless,
Just to be on the safe side I have started wearing my high visibility jacket in side the cockpit. I am thinking of wearing two at night just to be extra careful.What do the rest of you think?

Aircraft should be fitted with at least 4 HISL's and CAT1 police approved CE marked CAA spec reflective tape on the skids, so that it lights up like a christmas tree when you shine a light upon it..:D

MD :suspect:

NB, Pilots should only wear correctional facility orange flying suits with their own CAA number on the back, just incase they need to be reported.:{

i think we should all just stay at home to be safe.

what with all this vibration, deafness, fatigue, weather, maintenance problems, duty hours, noise, idiot students, idiot management, the CAA, the FAA, the newbies, the oldies, the military, the J1 folk, the R22, the 206 tail rotor....

we should all just get office jobs for double the salary and half the stress.....

Can somone tell me why we all started wearing these yellow high viz fashion statements and are there any statistics showing how many lives they have saved. Please do not give me any nonsense about how it identifies you as aircrew or airport staff,anybody can buy one in the suprermarket.

Hi Viz Vest
 

Ed

It must be because after you have parked your lovely helicopter and you are walking across the apron for a cup of tea, and admiration from the ladies/gents, that the plank driver, who can just see over the instrument panel and focus with his -5 prescription glasses through the prop, which is over revving, doesnt mow you down, because of your stealthy black or navy blue flight suit blends into the background.:D

I have only really seen plank drivers with them on, but thats my 10 øre's worth. :{

MD :rolleyes:

No. But it is the law to pay for your own training including landing fees !

Perhaps he means he made him wear the hi-vis jacket to pay the landing fee?

:cool:

Saw you today at EGLW, if you were flying an R-44! Just as well you were wearing it, or we might have been concerned that the aircraft was up there all by itself....... ;)

We fly with position lights and anti-collision strobe lights on all the time (even though we have plenty of sun and it is pretty bright here)…because we can I guess! Landing light goes on in reduced visibility.

Sorry to hi-jack the thread, but hi-viz jackets are a ‘pet peeve’ of mine.

Our regulatory authority tells us that we have to wear hi-viz vests because ICAO requires it.

However, we only have to wear the jackets whilst working on the aircraft or doing external inspections on the apron. We don’t have to wear them whilst airside and walking to and from the aircraft. (Is that crazy?)

To add insult to injury we have to have the name of our company stenciled on the back of the jacket.

I refuse to wear one, just because I am awkward, and because I feel that if someone is going to run me down he is also going to take out ‘my ride’ as well.

My argument, if I am asked, is that there is no place to stow the jecket ‘on the flight deck’ of my small helicopter and I don’t want to wear it in flight because it is 100% nylon (risk in the event of the fire) and it will cause me to overheat, my cabin’s ambient temperature is already an uncomfortable 34°C with high humidity (no aircon here), reducing my performance even more and increasing the risk of an accident.

So far I haven’t been challenged, but the day will come.