CRASH FFF SAR is one-

GRAM... I can't remember the rest.

Any other cool acronyms for NVG stuff.

never heard of any of them

C-confusion ground lights

R-elative motion

A-ltered planes of reference

NVG illusions- just some ways of remembering for a check ride

I use FLASH often to keep me from going IIMC, it works.

Fog

Loss of light

Ambiert light reduced

Shadows on ground

Halos around lights

Thank you, I will add this to student study guide.

Things like this help all of us. Your 42 years shows in your professionalism, Thank you

Taught NVGs to IERW students.  Trust me; most of it is overkill.  Don't need to know 3/4 of the material to operate VERY safely with NVGs.

Here's a fun list since you're asking...

Distance Estimation and Depth Perception: BM-GRAM

Under G is LAV, R is KITO, A is FLL

Night use of lights is FLAPII

NVG Operational Characteristics: DIAL VP

NVG Operational Considerations: CALMWWADSOS

Under L is PET, W is FLASH (as previously posted), D is DATE

And there are PLENTY more... yada yada yada.

Just fly slow and make even more conservative wx decisions and you'll be fine.

Also, it's FFF CRASH CARS (or CSAR depending on how you like your mnemonic)

One C is Confusion with Ground Lights

The other C is Crater Illusion (when landing in an almost perfectly flat snow or desert landing area with no other items to contrast)

I am a utility pilot in a state agency and they are talking NVG's and

I am terrified! DARK AIR HAS NO LIFT! I fight fire sun up to sun down.

Airplane and flying it for years and couldn't tell you anything about it. You take off and it flies...not much to it.

kidding.

NVGs are just another tool that is very worthwhile and easy to use.  I kept mine adjusted all the way out from my glasses (Yeup, no problem) so I could easily look under them to the panel or outside with a very slight head tilt.  Don't need them?  Flip them up.  

The formal school is worthwhile.  Don't try to remember all the wizardry.  Just go through it so you'll know where to find answers later on.

Be conservative and enjoy.  You will learn to like them.

If you have your NVGs "all the way out" you have reduced your field of view to about 20 degrees. The NVGs should be sdjusted to about 25mm from your eyes (which will accommodate glasses) for the widest FOV.

agree but in practice with slight head movement I was happy.  Never needed to get ultra serious about the FOV.

One of our pilots had them cranked all the way (no glasses) in and the panel lights effectively OFF.  Something about National Guard and Blackhawks and deployments and Afghanistan and whatever else.  Didn't pay too much attention, neither did anyone else.  In my day we flew the INFANT.  Terrible forward CG.

Bottom line NVGs are a very worthwhile tool.  Glad I got to use them.

What's funny is I gots thousands hours night time and NVG and Turbine Twin and all that there and I can't get a job interview for a ute operation because: no long line. Oh Well. Ute pilots are like Lear Captains, they are not made, they just come into existence somehow. Probably by divine miraculous Word of Creation. 

luck if that's what you want to do.  Welcome to civilian work.

Not the correct acronym anymore.  They Army, in its infinite wisdom, changed it.  Probably some clever RLO making a change for an OER bullet.  

what used to be relative motion is now Vection... smh