Just an opinion

[badboy8787]

With all these recent inncidents happening with general aviation, would anyone agree that they should make some sort pilot safety gear? Especially clothing. I dont know if they even make stuff for that, but I ride motorcycles (street/track) and I am always wearing my helmet and leathers (safety jacket and pants) with armor (padded protectors) which gives protection during an impact and hard abrasion. Again, not to sound like an a$#. Just an opinion.

 

[surreal1221]

The best safety device in an airplane is a well trained pilot.

No amount of "safety" clothing or headgear will stop pilots from making poor decisions or flying non-airworthy equipment or from fate or bad luck catching up to any of us.

 

[ppragman]

With all these recent inncidents happening with general aviation, would anyone agree that they should make some sort pilot safety gear? Especially clothing. I dont know if they even make stuff for that, but I ride motorcycles (street/track) and I am always wearing my helmet and leathers (safety jacket and pants) with armor (padded protectors) which gives protection during an impact and hard abrasion. Again, not to sound like an a$#. Just an opinion.

I have some flame resistant fleeces and shirts from my old job that I wear underneath as a layer when its cold. I always wear long sleeve shirts after I met a guy who had one arm badly burned and the other was fine because he had one sleave up and one sleave down. As for a helmet, I know some cub drivers who wear helmets, but I won't it just looks ridiculous.

The best safety device in an airplane is a well trained pilot.

No amount of "safety" clothing or headgear will stop pilots from making poor decisions or flying non-airworthy equipment or from fate or bad luck catching up to any of us.

True, but there are somethings that can help, e.g. keeping a survival bag in the airplane, wearing long sleave shirts, dressing like you're going to go down.

I learned the "dress like you're going in" lesson about a month ago, when I had a flat tire in skwentna. Normally, I'm crazy bundled up, but this time, for some reason, I didn't wear long johns and only wore my carhart jacket (not the usual layered upon layered layer I normally wear) I had to wait outside for about 2 hrs when it was 3 degrees or less. Sucked big time. Never again.

 

[jspeed87]

I don't think it's practical to wear a helmet while flying a Cessna lol. Maybe on a trike or a homebuilt.

 

[907]

I wear an inflatable life vest when I fly here. Not like it would save me if I were to get in the water as the water here equals a quick death. It's more like a corpse marker, so at least the Coast Guard could find my frozen body. I wonder if I could inflate it right before impact to absorb some of the shock if I ever had to bring it down in a muskeg or something.

 

[Holocene]

With all these recent inncidents happening with general aviation, would anyone agree that they should make some sort pilot safety gear? Especially clothing. I dont know if they even make stuff for that, but I ride motorcycles (street/track) and I am always wearing my helmet and leathers (safety jacket and pants) with armor (padded protectors) which gives protection during an impact and hard abrasion. Again, not to sound like an a$#. Just an opinion.

The fuselage is really all you need for protection against impacts and abrasion, assuming you have control of the plane down to ground level. If you stall, spin, or CFIT...haha, no helmet or armor is going to save you.

However, I do remember something about Cessna looking into "airbags" similar to supplemental automobile restraint systems.