heli jargon

[FlyGirl86]

this may sound silly...but i have been having some issues and i know i have been posting a lot and i am sorry. however...heli jargon is confusing me and i was wondering if there was some links or something so i could get a clear definition of everything. I know it will become clearer once i actually start ground school, but i wanna be ahead of the game. Like i said..it may be silly. but honestly, no one is born knowing these things. Thanks a lot for all the help you've already given me and all the good luck wishes. you guys are great! and also..any good tips on good flying sunglasses. I know the pilots I used to know spent hundreds of dollars on good glasses and said it was worth it. Need some tips on where to find them..thanks again

[Goldy]

this may sound silly...but i have been having some issues and i know i have been posting a lot and i am sorry. however...heli jargon is confusing me and i was wondering if there was some links or something so i could get a clear definition of everything. I know it will become clearer once i actually start ground school, but i wanna be ahead of the game. Like i said..it may be silly. but honestly, no one is born knowing these things. Thanks a lot for all the help you've already given me and all the good luck wishes. you guys are great! and also..any good tips on good flying sunglasses. I know the pilots I used to know spent hundreds of dollars on good glasses and said it was worth it. Need some tips on where to find them..thanks again

 

 

You mean words like

 

ATIS

VFR

IFR

GPS

ILS

ROD

RPM

VNE

DA

Class A B C D E and G

MSL

AGL

 

Ok ,enough already ! I could list descriptions but that would be a dis-service to you. If you really want to do this, go get a couple great books. There are TONS of resources free, some on the FAA site. Do some searches on other posts related to reading material under this site and you will get a lot of reference material advice. Never stop asking questions, this is a great place learn from .

 

Here's just one of many threads you can review : http://helicopterforum.verticalreference.com/helicopterfor...08&hl=books

 

 

Good luck, safe flying

 

Goldy

[Gomer Pylot]

Pretty much any sunglasses will work. One thing to consider is the temples, because they need to fit under your headset and still give a good noise seal without pain, and this is hard to find. My personal solution is a Clarity Aloft headset, which has no domes, thus no problem with any glasses, and Serengeti Velocity Titanium sunglasses with driver gradient lenses. These filter out the blue haze, and stop the sun while letting me still see the instruments clearly, especially early in the morning & late in the evening, when it's a little dark in the cockpit but the sun is still bright on the horizon.

[cptcoma]

...try american optical sunglasses.

[67november]

these will teach you what you want to know

 

http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/index.htm

 

 

http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraf...a-h-8083-21.pdf

Edited August 16, 2006 by 67november

[FlyGirl86]

Pretty much any sunglasses will work. One thing to consider is the temples, because they need to fit under your headset and still give a good noise seal without pain, and this is hard to find. My personal solution is a Clarity Aloft headset, which has no domes, thus no problem with any glasses, and Serengeti Velocity Titanium sunglasses with driver gradient lenses. These filter out the blue haze, and stop the sun while letting me still see the instruments clearly, especially early in the morning & late in the evening, when it's a little dark in the cockpit but the sun is still bright on the horizon.

 

 

How do you like the clairty aloft headset? i am looking at those too...and the clarity one looks pretty neat. But does it work ok? I was looking intosome Bose ones.

[Gomer Pylot]

It works very well. The noise suppression is better than any ANR headset, according to the published manufacturers' data. It's much more comfortable, and I don't plan to ever go back to conventional headsets.

[delorean]

On the sunglasses topic.....When "polarized" lenses first came out I heard there was a problem with being able to see LCD displays (i.e. your GPS, EFIS, glass cockpit stuff.) I've never tried them nor heard anything more about that issue. Just thought I'd pass that along.

 

Headsets....Just don't go cheap. Buy the best one you can afford, because it's something you can use for the rest of your career. Ah, my trusty ol' David Clark 13.4. 12 years old and still as great as the day I got it.

[justfly]

...heli jargon is confusing me and i was wondering if there was some links or something so i could get a clear definition of everything...

There is a GLOSSARY section at the back of the Rotorcraft Flying Handbook (67n's second link above) that may be your most concise, quick & dirty reference to helicopter specific lingo. As others have said, that and the other FAA books are available free online at http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/.

[PA Pilot]

How do you like the clairty aloft headset? i am looking at those too...and the clarity one looks pretty neat. But does it work ok? I was looking intosome Bose ones.

For my money, nothing beats Bose for effectiveness and comfort. I've been using the Bose Aviator X since it first came out in both helicopters and fixed-wing -- I love 'em (Bose, that is, not fixed-wing), and we're getting Bose at all four seats in our new Raven II.

[Wesp]

Gomer Pylot, can you wear the Clarity Aloft with a helmet? I never heard of 'em before but it seems very good.

[HelliBoy]

Love the Bose X, shopped around and tried just about everything else too. On sunglasses, I had a medical examiner tell me to avoid polarized lenses. The reason being that polarized lenses block glare from the horizontal plane, thus enlarging your pupils. This means that pilots, usually seeing glare from below have light from oblique angles passing through their polarized lenses and going through their larger pupils and damaging their eyes.

[Witch]

I like "prang". That's when you break something, like "I pranged the skid shoes on that last running landing."

 

Later.

[Bristol]

this may sound silly...but i have been having some issues and i know i have been posting a lot and i am sorry. however...heli jargon is confusing me and i was wondering if there was some links or something so i could get a clear definition of everything. I know it will become clearer once i actually start ground school, but i wanna be ahead of the game. Like i said..it may be silly. but honestly, no one is born knowing these things. Thanks a lot for all the help you've already given me and all the good luck wishes. you guys are great! and also..any good tips on good flying sunglasses. I know the pilots I used to know spent hundreds of dollars on good glasses and said it was worth it. Need some tips on where to find them..thanks again

 

 

Flygirl, check out:

 

http://www.gps.tc.faa.gov/glossary.html

 

[West Coaster]

any good tips on good flying sunglasses

 

Aboot 90% of all pilots I know wear Serengeti sun glasses