Flying Suits
 

Anyone conact me on personal with details of anywhere I can get my son an XLL flying suit or overall (with map pockets) as he is spending 10 days next week (28) on a glider course. Rgds

He needs T-shirt, shorts, old trainers, floppy dirty-white sunhat & designer shades :ok:

Kev.

If he has a VGS scholarship or is in ATC he should get issued one. If it is just a personal thing, then there is no point really, as you do not have such a worry about the possibility of fire which is my prime reason for flying suits.

Look at Transair or Flightstore- both .co.uk

Put him in an XL flight suit in this heat for and hour and he'll come down needing an "M":O

He will look out of place in a flying suit on his first experiences in a glider, and they are unsuitable for most initial sorties - too hot unless it is a cold day.

If you/he are really determined to get one, you can see such things as Ozee suits:

http://shop.ozee.co.uk/index

and

Ozee Exeat Flying Suit. http://www.airstoreone.co.uk/proddet...prod=ozeeexeat.

Two words of warning: mine is difficult to open the top in flight, which you need if dressed for going high but need to be cooler low down; and it appears to have been designed by a woman, who needs no central mid-height opening but such a thing is mighty handy for a man - I had to inset a zip into mine to attend to bodily needs. Maybe they have a "male" version now.

But really, I go with the old clothes scenario as said above. Also, good clothes are magnetically attracted to dirt and oil which seem to emanate from gliding activities.

Chris N.

ha ha ha ha.... a flying suit in a glider. At least it brightened my evening....:p

try northwest supplies website, about £40 for military surplus...