Flight helmet question, inform the un-informed

[JD81]

So what is with the patch of velcro that must be on a USN flight helmet? I have never been able to find out the purpose of it.

Josh

 

[zippy]

the small square one on the back of it??? Dunno if it must be on the helmet, but we used it to attach the ICS cord plug to the for easier transport (no cord trailing behind you and getting tangled on ****) in primary.

 

[Brett327]

So what is with the patch of velcro that must be on a USN flight helmet? I have never been able to find out the purpose of it.

Josh

It's so you can put your little survival strobe light on there if you're floating around in the water at night.

Brett

 

[JD81]

ahh, makes sense about the strobe. Thanks, that one's been bothering me for a while

 

[Ex Rigger]

Brett's got it. The strobe light has the other side of the velcro.

 

[zippy]

Ah yes, now I remember that being mentioned by one of the PRs...

 

[NavyLonghorn]

Helmet? What are those? We have velcro on the top of our luxurious headsets inorder to hold the battery pack for our lip lights. You think if we ditched we could flash the little LED's over and over to create a sort of strobe effect? I dunno.. prolly not.. but atleast ill have a few sandwhiches and some gatorade left over for when we chill in the back seat.

 

[Gatordev]

You may also see a bigger patch of velcro at the base of the helmet, right above the neck strap which is for the NVG battery pack. I had that for a while until we switched over to the clips (which are better, IMO). Some guys still use the velcro. PLUS, there's also another patch opposite of the strobe patch that you can see sometimes, which is where the lip light battery pack goes, for those that wear them. Basically at night, your head is just one big battery.

 

[Bevo16]

Helo guys put the battery pack for their lip lights (set of 3 small NVG compatable lights under your ICS mike) on that velcro.

 

[squorch2]

My helmet has 4 attach points - 2 velcro (1 on top for ICS cord/survival strobe, 1 on the back for lip light batter pack), then the aforementioned NVG stuff.

 

[East]

We put velcro on the head of the oldest crewmember, has to be bald though!

 

[goplay234]

We still use it for ICS cords and the strobe in the Hummer.

 

[Blutonski816]

What's cool to see is how some of the Fighters guys get the velcro on their helmets cut out in that little "VF" shape...

 

[NavyLonghorn]

lol. When i get to P3's, ill get mine cut in a dollar sign shape.

 

[A4sForever]

... And just hope the SAR don't mistake the strobe for muzzle flashes ....