Augmented Reality should make the helmet an economical buy.
No longer need an aircraft, so no fuel, maintenance, hangarage, landing fees, and insurance costs.
F-16 is old school, what we need is this:
Lots of added benefits like:
Image display, Sensor fusion, day and night camera
Halfway kidding of course, but sensor fusion, night vision and augmented reality right there on the helmet would be a blast. Perhaps, if not the wind in your hair is your thing
For ultimate show value, how about an F16 helmet.
I’d like to wear a helmet, but the ones I have tried seem like a cheap motorcycle helmet from the 1970s. I hope that technology improves a bit, and that it does not cost 3000 to get one. If we can get more people buying them the cost will come down. Thanks Paul for getting the ball rolling!
That helmets looks like it requires a Mustang
P51 with 1HP STC
LeSving wrote:
That helmets looks like it requires a Mustang
U hopefully mean the one equipped with 4 legs
That helmets looks like it requires a Mustang
Helmets were required on all ULs here some 15 years ago. Probably from the time ULs were open garden chair things. The requirement stopped about 15 years ago, and is now only required on open aircraft like trikes for instance or a typical (open) gyro. All professional helicopter pilots were helmets AFAIK. In an open aircraft you would want a helmet for comfort/practical reasons also.
Proper seat belts is a much better investment IMO, as Bertorelly suggests. It should be 4 point, preferably 5 point. I often fly an old Army Cub. The army pilots used proper flight helmets, why shouldn’t we? It’s something I think about from time to time. It’s the same with the Safir.
I don’t use sun glasses. I use caps instead. How will this work with a helmet? I would have make some a shade of some kind
Just “G” will do that. Body organs are attached with connective tissue and that will stretch and break, and blood vessels break similarly. One can withstand a lot of forward G – example – but not downward G (e.g. the AF447 scenario, or an aircraft descending in a deep stall, or under a chute).