Pinecone wrote:Just to lighten the discussion a little:

I need a bump cap when I'm outside the airplane. Still having to adjust to struts after 9 years with a strut-less T210. Haven't hit the strut with my head since I put floats on, but wait until wheels are back for winter! Then there's the wing trailing edge. If I leave the gear mirrors on the underside of the wings while on wheels, there's another hazard. I'm 6' 1/2" tall, worst possible height for a Skywagon pilot.

Hey, big tires might lessen my head banging hazard! I have no other justification for big tires, but they're cool, so let's go with that!

I got talked into spending $6 on a hardhat, because I was always coming home with new scars on my head. But it's usually sitting on a chair in the hangar--more of an annoyance than anything. When I'm at OSH for 9 or 10 days, I pad the trailing edge and strut on the "tent side" with swimming pool noodles, which has worked nicely.

Cary

Mauleguy wrote:Maybe they should spend more time flying then posting on the internet who knows.
Anyone with thousands of posts on various sites either has to much time on their hands or is just to dang opinionated for me to probably hang around with for very long. So for all of you with thousands of post I take what you say with very grain of salt, white noise.... You are like my Grandpa Miller, man did that guy drive me nuts with all his no it all about every subject. He was a guy that could have used a good thump on the head without a helmet on. It took a stroke to change his personality into someone that I loved, he became a happy go lucky, funny man his last ten years of life. The part that I never saw as a young boy finally showed up! So maybe there is hope for some of you yet......

There are definitely a few people in the "too many posts, not enough flying" category around the aviation forums. Chopper pilots would call them "skid-biters".

Then again, I think it comes down to people's motivation. Just because someone is more extroverted and posts more often, doesn't make them "all talk", its just human nature. Some people are quiet, others aren't. It's a good thing. We need talkers who are also doing-the-do, in order to make forums like this work. There are some people who post a lot because they are contributing to peoples questions over a long period of time, rather than posting random filler.

If all the most experienced guys only posted <20 times a year, useful information would be a rare thing around here... Sometimes I don't agree with every comment from Rob, Phil, Mike Viv, etc. etc. (the list of experts is so long!), but I sure am grateful for their contributions.

Dang, the amount of people offended and upset by the OPs post is starting to make Facebook look good again, that's a shame. He does believe it's a personal choice, as evidenced by him helping a passenger into his Maule at my place......

It's an odd target for making fun, but also an unexpected topic to rile feathers because it's the one thing that has zero effect on anyone but yourself.

I suspect it's because some don't like feeling pressure to do something they're not doing.

Zenithguy wrote:Dang, the amount of people offended and upset by the OPs post is starting to make Facebook look good again, that's a shame.

Ironically, you seem offended at people getting offended. Does it cancel out? Or is it constructive interference? You know Rob, I think he relishes it.

Zzz wrote:It's an odd target for making fun, but also an unexpected topic to rile feathers because it's the one thing that has zero effect on anyone but yourself.

I suspect it's because some don't like feeling pressure to do something they're not doing.

Zenithguy wrote:Dang, the amount of people offended and upset by the OPs post is starting to make Facebook look good again, that's a shame.

Ironically, you seem offended at people getting offended. Does it cancel out? Or is it constructive interference? You know Rob, I think he relishes it.

That's kinda laughable, Zane, and the down side of getting involved in threads like this. Read it carefully, that's not what my post was about. Sorry.

Zenithguy wrote:
That's kinda laughable, Zane, and the down side of getting involved in threads like this. Read it carefully, that's not what my post was about. Sorry.

Trust me, I did think it was cute/funny. Can't break character though.

Something stinks in here.

One day Rob will stop by and think he'll look good in one of these. My wife thinks I look like a dork in all of them.
Not that it should matter one iota to anyone, after putting in over 1,000 flight hours wearing a helmet, I was done, and don't wear one now, and enjoy it. Just personal choice.

Co-pilot gets a helmet too.

Hey Hotrod, that's way too conspicuous!!! The foil has to be super incognito, otherwise the aliens/govt will hack right through it!!! I just heard a noise, did u hear that [emoji38]


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hotrod180 wrote:Co-pilot gets a helmet too. That looks like the worlds lightest folding helmet.

Use this for padding with a double layer of light the light weight aluminum and you have survival rations.

I thought of this thread this morning, while riding my efatbike on the trail (multi-use, but way too rough for regular mountain bikes, they stay in town and ride the bike specific trails there, those are maintained and buffed out, this one never is) that runs around the mountain range behind my place, while looking down to thread my way through some cantaloupe and watermelon size rocks. The tip of a tree branch hanging out over the trail got lodged in one of the vents in my bike helmet, and damn near jerked me off the bike before it pulled loose. No problem, though, I definitely get my moneys worth out of my bike helmet, almost every ride I often ride through overhanging branches like this, and just lower my head and let the helmet take the poking or scraping, first time time happened.

courierguy wrote:I thought of this thread this morning, while riding my efatbike on the trail (multi-use, but way too rough for regular mountain bikes, they stay in town and ride the bike specific trails there, those are maintained and buffed out, this one never is) that runs around the mountain range behind my place, while looking down to thread my way through some cantaloupe and watermelon size rocks. The tip of a tree branch hanging out over the trail got lodged in one of the vents in my bike helmet, and damn near jerked me off the bike before it pulled loose. No problem, though, I definitely get my moneys worth out of my bike helmet, almost every ride I often ride through overhanging branches like this, and just lower my head and let the helmet take the poking or scraping, first time time happened.

There was an interesting article in today's paper about "traumatic encephalopathy", i.e., brain cell damage and atrophy from repeated bangs, such as football players get--or you get from overhanging branches. Certainly if there are going to be repeated whacks, a helmet is a good idea. If the likelihood of being whacked in the head even once is great, a helmet is a good idea. So maybe for the hard core back country folks, it makes some sense. For those of us who are less likely to get whacked, maybe our shoulder harnesses are enough (depending on where the poky things are in the airplane, of course).

Cary

I like the research when it says the too much coffee I drank turns out to have made me likely to have lived longer. Football, which is much loved, may end up making us wear tin foil, or helmets, whenever moving by any means.