There are several reasons: A helmet provides head protection. A fighter airplane can make many sudden turns and a helmet provides reduction of the risk of a head injury. If the pilot needs to eject the airplane, helmet is needed to protect from wind blast, in addition to what I mentioned #1. There is a simple explanation as to why pilots can't wear polarized sunglasses—safety. Polarized sunglasses do too good a job at blocking glare and reflected light. While this is helpful when looking at a body of water or bank of clouds, it isn't so helpful when looking at an instrument panel. Pilots report distortions in their vision specifically for helicopter pilots. These helmet mounted goggles axe installed in front of the pilots' eyes. They are consu'ucted so as to allow pilots to look around the goggles into the cockpit or to the outside world with their naked eyes (fig. 2). VERTICAL HORIZONTAALDAPTER_ ADAPTER I_ _ FOC_ SETTING Helicopter pilots wear them for the higher chance of a lower speed impact or bird strike that is survivable with one. Some students and/or instructors wear helmets flying the GA helicopter equivalent to a 172. They look a bit silly, but it's your head, do what you want with it. And I suppose the second would be, since we're addressing kamikaze pilots, often, people want to know, why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? And that's often a question that you get, and there actually is a good reason. Sometimes, because the pilots who were engaged in kamikaze attacks often had very little flight training. Even simple EVO helicopter pilot helmets were the first to introduce the cable quick disconnect so that no more adapters were necessary. With the EVO cable system, just select the connector that your aircraft requires and plug in and go. We have over 20 cables available and make them with the Fisher Plug, the Russian ZSH Plug, UK NATO and U.S. NATO Plug. .

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