I've only used/needed one pair. Been wearing them since primary, but I've only needed them for takeoffs and landings the past year. I flip shit if I don't have them; they've got too much accumulated luck to fly without.
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Parts Incorporated in a Flight Suit
- Thread starter altuc
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Yeah...$88. You have to be a gear queer to buy those with your own money.
... $30 for a new pair... and an 'experienced' pair??? Slightly more ...
Knuckle protection? WTF is that for?
I don't think they were made with aviators in mind. They're for the nomex ninjas.
Only the married with kids guys say this. They're just jealous.
You're just jealous because in a ten day period I can fly ten times instead of being grounded eight times at the airfield and the PLing on the ninth time.
I believe that's Lawman next to a broken Apache in a field...
Gear queer.
Do you know how much baby food I can buy by wearing the gloves they gave me?
Just remember,... when you wear those "experienced pair" out.. make sure you shake the gold dust out of them before you get rid of them. :icon_wink... and an 'experienced' pair??? Slightly more ...
You can just have supply order them for you when it's replacement time. Or, when you go in theater,you will get plussed up to the desert gear.
I keep trying to scam as set of the black ninja ones, but supply claims they're impossible to get. I told them I'd take the new WileyX ones and they laughed at me. I guess the P-3 community won't be getting those until all of the old ones are out of the supply system. . .
It doesn't matter what the airframe is. You could be flying a 60 in the desert and you'll be carrying an M-11 and M-4 in the bird with you/on your person. Just because you fly a jet doesn't mean you carry a sidearm.
The flight suit is identical for all platforms. It's the add-ons that differ such as: SVU/CMU, g suit, helmet etc.
The flight suit is identical for all platforms. It's the add-ons that differ such as: SVU/CMU, g suit, helmet etc.
I stopped cutting the tips off my flight gloves.
I had one acquaintance who was in a fuel fire with the canopy open (A-6 land). He ended up with bad burns everywhere but where he had Nomex. Then, a RIO I knew shelled out of a burning Tomcat. He had gloves on but sleeves rolled up and ended up with second degree burn rings around both forearms.
After I climbed out of this bird, I always had "gloves on, sleeves rolled down".
I had one acquaintance who was in a fuel fire with the canopy open (A-6 land). He ended up with bad burns everywhere but where he had Nomex. Then, a RIO I knew shelled out of a burning Tomcat. He had gloves on but sleeves rolled up and ended up with second degree burn rings around both forearms.
After I climbed out of this bird, I always had "gloves on, sleeves rolled down".