Kenny KellerCreator Helicopter Online Ground School LLC

Avoid bright lights 30 minutes prior to Helicopter Night Flight!

12 Jun 2011 · 1 min

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Kenny Keller explains how to prepare your eyes for helicopter night flight. Do your preflight checks under bright lights indoors, then move outside to darkness for the fuel check and walk-around. Avoid bright lights for at least 30 minutes before takeoff, or up to an hour if you're using night-vision goggles.

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Kenny Keller.

30 minutes.

Up to an hour or more.

Inside under bright light, then move outside into darkness for final tasks (fuel, walk-around).

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Right now we have, we're in here, pretty brightly lit area, bright lights because we want to do a good pre flight. Inside with the light, get everything done inside, move outside where it's dark, do our fuel, last minute, walk around, go and do a last minute planning. Give yourselves a half an hour for your eyes to adjust. We learn from basic private pilot training. Minimum 30 minutes prior to flight. Avoid bright lights. In the night vision goggle training that I've had for doing EMS flying, they say that it can be actually up to an hour or more before your eyes really adjust. So get your aircraft pre flighted inside, of course, using your checklist as always, good pre flight, day or night, doesn't matter. Then move it outside, give your time, ice time to adjust, do your fuel, whatever else you need to do, and get ready to go.