Removing flight suit patches
 

Hi Guys, I've noticed from videos that pilots remove their patches on their flight suits during kitting up. May I ask why is that so? Thanks

Flight suit patches are only worn to impress the opposite sex. They are of no use once in the cockpit as the ladies can't see you in there, so they are removed. Some aircrew have been known to cultivate a deep drawl that they think female air traffickers will find sexy. Sadly the ladies are disappointed when said Top Gun dismounts from his steed and his bald pate, rotund middle and legs like John Wayne are revealed :ok:

So they can sell them down the local jinglie market. :}

9v, some aircrew equipment assemblies sit on top of patches, pockets, etc and can this cause discomfort. That is why fast-jet crew often have no leg pockets.

It is also good operational discipline to remove identifying patches. In many conflicts now it does not matter but in the future it might.

Does it not get very tiresome having to unpick the stitching everytime the aircrew get into the aircraft, and then having to sew them on again whenever they land?

Why do you think they allowed female aircrew?

It is easier to remove patches from aircrew than to remove the flying suit from them.:p

Is it not something to do with giving out sqd details? , aircraft type ?
home bases (PR against familys ) in war time etc ?

fallmonk, that as well, except in the modern situation, anything to stop having to eat one's bollocks is fair game.

Could be to prevent FOD in cockpit as they're only stuck on with velcro.



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Badges!
 

"We don't need no stinkin' badges"

Said with heavy Mexican accent.

It's a line from a film I once saw:)

It's actually because the flying suit with all those grey, velcro areas with no badges on them makes them look much more "sneaky beaky" and "well 'ard"...:ok:

Well 'ard? Why would they want to look like that Alsation from EastEnders? It's a soap opera on BBC 1 for all you Officer types out there.

What's Eestenders?

STH, apparently it is a soap opera what ever that is. Is it anything to do with gaipilots?

Don't eestenders eestend something, like extenders extend something or suspenders suspend something? :ooh:

calm down dear, don't get your knickers in a twist, it's only a commercial.

E E Stenders is a Sqn Ldr in the Supply Branch. I went through Cranwell with him when he still thought he could make it as a Fighter Controller.

Anyway, he's now SO2 Velcro at Air Cmnd.

Guess he's still living on the married patch then :ok:

Coat, hat etc.;)

Nah, he's got his own place. He thinks the patch is a rip-off.





I'll get my coat as well.