May 2011 Sport Aviation had an article about the CHP's use of GA aircraft.
In that article, it showed CHP officers flying a Cessna 206 and wearing flight helmets. This made me wonder why the need for helmets on the officers, and why not for the rest of us.
I assume the CHP does a lot of low altitude flying. But if massive head trauma is a common cause of death in GA accidents (just guessing here) why don't we ever even talk about helmets in GA flying.
What say you?
In that article, it showed CHP officers flying a Cessna 206 and wearing flight helmets. This made me wonder why the need for helmets on the officers, and why not for the rest of us.
I assume the CHP does a lot of low altitude flying. But if massive head trauma is a common cause of death in GA accidents (just guessing here) why don't we ever even talk about helmets in GA flying.
What say you?
) but it is worth looking into. So I did a Google search using the keywords "ANR" and "helmet" and got what appears to be a number of companies that sell ANR kits for existing helmets, as well as helmets with ANR built in, such as these:
