PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-632
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 632
JULY 2005
P
ilots and gunners, your IHADSS helmet bag can’t take being stuffed! It’s never
good to stuff extra items on top of the helmet that’s in the bag, like you’re stuffing
a holiday turkey.
Nothing
goes into the helmet bag but the helmet and the extra visor and housing
in its protective bag. Don’t get into the habit of cramming the bag with gloves,
maps, checklists, knee boards, flashlights, books or other TA-50 stuff.
Stuffing the helmet bag can damage
the sensors in the helmet or the eyelids
that protect them, the mic and boom, the
helmet shell, the visors, the helmet
wiring and communication harnesses
and connectors. That can leave you with
a helmet you can’t use to communicate
with or that can’t protect you.
Treat your helmet with care like TM
9-1270-233-23&P says, and it’ll take
care of your head when you need it most.
M
echanics, when doing rotor head maintenance on your AH-64A/Ds, slippery fin-
gers and dropped tools put the countermeasure set in harm’s way.
The best preventive maintenance countermeasure when working on the rotor head
is to remove the set from the bird. It can be best protected by placing it in a
safe/secure container, such as the system’s carrying can cover. The short-term stor-
age procedures are on page 2-19 of TM 11-5685-200-34-1.
First, that keeps you from using the set
as a step or a stool. Second, if you do
accidentally drop a tool or a wrench slips
out of your hand as you torque a bolt in
the rotor head, the set’s not there to get
damaged.
Even though the protective cover,
NSN 5865-01-109-1800, covers the set, a
dropped wrench can still damage the
glass mirror panes. At $46 a pane, that’s
a hefty financial hit to your unit’s budget.
Be safe, rather than sorry, and safely
store the countermeasure set when per-
forming rotor head maintenance.
Remove countermeasure set when
possible while working on rotor head
And watch
your feet!
PS 632
JUL 05
39
AN/ALQ-144A…
PS 632
JUL 05
38
IHADSS Helmet…
we’d
better get
started on
that rotor
head!
lemme
break out
the heavy
duty
tools!
…how ‘bout
removing my
counter-
measure
set!?
Only helmet and accessories go into bag.
Stuffing With Stuff
{murf!} if you
expect me to
work,
don’t
cram stuff in
my bag!!
‘heavy duty’!?
before you guys get
to clanging and
banging up there…
632.38-39(C)
5/31/05
1:20 PM
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