New thread that names and shames airfields that demands pilots wear High Viz vests airside
Why?
Well I agree that in certain places it's probably wise to wear a high viz jacket for self preservation purposes (motorways), but unless you are deaf, blind and stupid enough to be walking around an airfield and oblivious as to what dangers lie out there, then wearing the said hi viz waste of time isn't going to prevent idiots from hurting themselves.
I consider myself a fairly typical pilot who can see a stupid rule, and even I'm clever enough to realise when i'm about to be run over by an aeroplane, and tend to move for my own safety. Being forced to wear a highly flammable, static inducing plastic jacket by some jobsworth only makes me resist even more.
Why not wear an orange flashing light on one's head??
Thats why people are against it, and if Lydd require one, then I don't need to go to Lydd. I always considered it the compost heap at the end of the Garden of England anyway!