Lap belt slingers.Pilots and co-pilots, if the mission is over, slow down! Unhooking and slinging the lap belt lap belt n. A seat belt that fastens across the lap. buckle to exit your Black Hawk Black Hawk (born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va.—died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S.) Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831. puts the cyclic boot cover in harm's way. When you toss the buckle, it smacks the cyclic boot. Over time that wears out the boot and can tear a hole in it. If that happens, your aircraft is NMC NMC Nursing & Midwifery Council (UK) NMC NSSDC Master Catalog (NASA) NMC Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City, Michigan) NMC National Meteorological Center until the cyclic boot can be replaced. The boot protects the cyclic stick which controls the bird's pitch in flight. Without a boot, dirt can get into the cyclic stick and damage the works that assist in flight control. So take your time exiting the bird. Just unlatch un·latch v. un·latched, un·latch·ing, un·latch·es v.tr. To unfasten or open by releasing the latch. v.intr. To become unfastened or opened. the lap belt and place the round buckle in the seat or let it hang over the seat. But don't sling it or let it fall on the boot as you leave. Don't kick the boot because that also causes damage. The boot should always be zipped to the top, but sometimes it slides back because of a wire on the cyclic stick. To keep the zipper zipper Device for binding the edges of an opening, as on a garment or a bag. A zipper consists of two strips of material with metal or plastic teeth along the edges, and a sliding piece that interlocks the teeth when moved in one direction and separates them again when moved in place, use a zip tie on it. |
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