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Stan Gosnell wrote in message ...
(Snowbird) wrote in om: Our CFI doesn't like pilots he flies with to use hoods. Apparently he had a near-miss involving the blind spot they create. Can't argue with that. Oh, well........... Have you considered a different CFI? How would that help? The blind spot created by the hood would still be there. And frankly, the hoods I've tried allowed waaaaaay too much cheating. Obviously I haven't tried them all, your favorite may be perfect in this regard. That's what mine a old scratched-up safety glasses with an area of the lens taped over, then attacked w/ sandpaper and a dremel tool. That's extreme. :-) Easier to mask the bottoms, & use some black spray paint. Easier for whom? I can attack something w/ sandpaper or even a dremel tool on the porch while I'm watching my daughter. Spray paint requires clearing and masking an area to catch overspray, then clean up afterwards. The "clearing" is non-trivial in any domecile "Mr. Clutter" (aka my husband) inhabits. Then I have to wait several weeks for enough of the solvent to out-gas that I can stand to be in the same closed space with something that's been painted (it's an asthmatic trigger for me). They're still too thick for me, though. The earpieces on my glasses are very thin wire, & anything thicker just doesn't cut it. Concur, hence my interest in mfr a Hood Lamb equivalent for Lightspeeds. Cheers, Sydney |
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Roger Halstead wrote in
: Foggles appear to be nothing more than the inexpensive clear plastic safety glasses that have been sandblasted, or bead blasted on the sides and areas where you want to block vision. Nope, one more modification - the price is jacked way up. Based on that, the equivalent is quite easy to make, or even duplicate. For a fraction of the price. Anything targeted at aviation & pilots is very expensive, because all those pilots have lots of money. ;-) I never buy anything sold as being for aviation if I can help it. My flight bag is a fishing tackle bag I bought on clearance at KMart. Just about the only thing I own that's sold to pilots is the mike for my headset. I recently had to replace the cord on my headset, & thought I was getting ripped off by the electronics supply place for $20, but if you buy one specifically designed for an aviation headset you'll pay close to $100 for a lower-quality equivalent. -- Regards, Stan |
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Roger Halstead wrote in message . ..
Foggles appear to be nothing more than the inexpensive clear plastic safety glasses that have been sandblasted, or bead blasted on the sides and areas where you want to block vision. Concur. As I said in a previous post, that's exactly what mine are (well, I sanded and used a dremel tool, I didn't bead blast them). Cheers, Sydney |
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:22:12 +0100, Leland Vandervort
wrote: On 19 Aug 2003 06:09:48 -0700, (Snowbird) wrote: How would that help? The blind spot created by the hood would still be there. And frankly, the hoods I've tried allowed waaaaaay too much cheating. Obviously I haven't tried them all, your favorite may be perfect in this regard. That's what mine a old scratched-up safety glasses with an area of the lens taped over, then attacked w/ sandpaper and a dremel tool. Imagine the blind spots in the UK for I/R students since the only artifical visual inhibitors allowed in the UK for I/R training are IF Screens (louvered blinds over the pilot side windows)... LOTs of blind spots generated by those. Man, but that sure sounds like an accident waiting for a place to happen. For the IMC rating, foggles or hoods are acceptable, but for I/R it must be screens so the student can't "cheat" by peeking out the corner of his eye. Sure sounds like a bit of overzealous bureaucracy trading safety for accuracy. You sure it didn't come from this side of the pond? Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) Leland |
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On 19 Aug 2003 19:32:12 GMT, Stan Gosnell
wrote: Roger Halstead wrote in : Foggles appear to be nothing more than the inexpensive clear plastic safety glasses that have been sandblasted, or bead blasted on the sides and areas where you want to block vision. Nope, one more modification - the price is jacked way up. I notice that too...Actually a very important modification to the safety glasses. Based on that, the equivalent is quite easy to make, or even duplicate. For a fraction of the price. Anything targeted at aviation & pilots is very expensive, because all those pilots have lots of money. ;-) Not for long:-)) I never buy anything sold as being for aviation if I can help it. My flight bag is a fishing tackle bag I bought on clearance at KMart. Just about the only thing I own that's sold to pilots is the mike for my I use my old briefcase I had at work...before I retired. headset. I recently had to replace the cord on my headset, & thought I was getting ripped off by the electronics supply place for $20, but if you buy one specifically designed for an aviation headset you'll pay close to $100 for a lower-quality equivalent. I'm not sure I paid that much for my first pair of headsets. Course they were Sigtronics passive headsets and that was almost 15 years ago. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) |
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Roger Halstead wrote in
: Imagine the blind spots in the UK for I/R students since the only artifical visual inhibitors allowed in the UK for I/R training are IF Screens (louvered blinds over the pilot side windows)... LOTs of blind spots generated by those. Man, but that sure sounds like an accident waiting for a place to happen. For the IMC rating, foggles or hoods are acceptable, but for I/R it must be screens so the student can't "cheat" by peeking out the corner of his eye. Sure sounds like a bit of overzealous bureaucracy trading safety for accuracy. You sure it didn't come from this side of the pond? The other side makes this side look positively liberal. They don't even allow GPS approaches at all. They're still depending mostly on NDB's. GPS is a U.S. innovation too new & undependable for use in the UK. There are some instructive threads on PPRuNe forums, particularly Rotorheads on this subject. -- Regards, Stan |
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On 20 Aug 2003 15:51:14 GMT, Stan Gosnell
wrote: Roger Halstead wrote in : I'm not sure I paid that much for my first pair of headsets. Course they were Sigtronics passive headsets and that was almost 15 years ago. You got a good deal. I build my own headsets from David Clark hearing protectors & parts, & it costs me almost that much just for parts, & the only aviation parts I use are the mike and boom, earseals, & plug, and I generally recycle as much of that as I can. My boom is one I liberated from a military headset over 20 years ago, as is the plug. I've built a lot of stuff over the years, both electronic and mechanical...Quite often I could purchase something new for the price of the parts...some times less. NOw that was not the case when surplus parts were available. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) |
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