Flourescent Jackets
 

Does anyone know where the airline purchase the flourescent jackets used by Flight crew from?

Please excuse the spelling of flourescent as it is getting late ;)

Thanks

Jinkster

Jinkster,
Do you mean the type of thing that traffic officers wear rather than the waistcoats?
Try Greenham trading look in the Site construction section: Keep Safe EN 471 High Visibility Safety Clothing, they're fairly cheap as well ( They must be, they're an approved supplier to the cheapskates I work for) There are quite a few other places on the same lines. I think RS components do them as well. Try your local builders suppliers or work wear shop. :ok:

I bought a hi-vis tabard, not a proper flouresecent waterproof all-weather coat for £4.99 +VAT.

Whirly had some that she was selling to raise funds for her camel, so she might be able to help.

Strange this gets mentioned today, I noticed that NETTO have them, well they were advertising them for £15 on the leaflet they stuck through my letterbox last night.

Other places I'd look are places like Yoemans/Milletts/FAS.

A quick google on 'Work wear' brought up places such as http://www.kelticclothing.co.uk/ which do a range of stuff.

please note other clothing and work wear suppliers are available.

If you must have a high-visibility jacket (which I understand is now required at most UK aerodromes, more's the pity), you might as well spent a bit more and get one of Mustang's classic bomber jackets. At least it will keep you afloat and (relatively) warm, if you ever have to ditch.

Any ideas where to get one that says Flight crew printed on the back?

Jinkster

Personally I wear one of the Flyer Magazine ones ........... to cover someone elses a*se :)


Flyer Hi Viz Vests

Does it have to be yellow?. I can get hold of millions of orange ones with reflective strips on them if they are allowed, legal and free if anyone wants one. Simply get a black marker pen to go over our company logo and bob's your' uncle.

if they can be orange i would like one - i will of course give you something for the postage :)

Jinkster

You could try sewing four gold bars on the shoulders; would that work? :p

mmmmmmmm............ ORANGE!

You mean like this but fluorescent?


http://www.uniformfreak.com/uniforms/easyjet/easy14.jpg

The Briefing staff at Gloucestershire Airport are giving them away free to any visiting pilots who don't have them

Here it is..............

http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.evans28/IMAG0002.JPG

Not too bad really. :)

Single-handedly BRL sets rail safety back 15 years :)

Only kidding mate!

SD

Visited Lydd today for lunch, was delighted to see the following sign on the door as I went back to my aircraft (precise words may be slightly wrong)...

"Warning - anybody except for aircrew must wear a hi-visibility jacket past this door".


A reasonable compromise I thought :cool:

G

Aircrew expendable then?? :D :cool:

Do some airfields insist on ALL passengers also wearing hi-viz jackets? My home airfield (Gamston) says as long as pax walk across the ramp to the aircraft with the pilot (i.e. me) and I'm wearing a hi-viz vest, that's sufficient.

If some airfields insist that all persons on the ramp need a hi-viz vest, then I'll need three more, in which case please can I take you up on the kind offer of some freebies BRL? I'll gladly refund postage and the cost of a pint....

:ok:

Presumably they recognise that aircrew are aware that propellors bite.

The daft thing is that if you take the trouble to read the relevant CAP you will see that it is all about the danger of being run down by airside vehicles of the ground-based variety, which are generally very rare animals at most GA fields.

Aircraft are generally easily spotted by pedestrians as they are big, noisy, slow moving and have strobe lights and wings on them. People therefore tend not to get run over by them. Its the baggage tractor hurtling round the corner that's dangerous.

Mike

On both of my visits to Lydd i never bothered with the dusty high viz shoved in the very back of the a/c... didn't even see the sign or get a telling off. The students of the flying school at lydd have to wear them tho :ok: TBH i have never worn it...even southampton int. didnt say anything to me! A/c captains should be doing a constant lookout anyway......even when taxying.

[Sorry - have been away from PPRuNe for a few days, so am late replying!]
BRL - I've never seen it written anywhere, but I believe that the requirement is for the waistcoat to meet the requirements of EN471:1994, which I had always taken to define that the colour was fluorescent yellow. A quick Google advises me that the orange waistcoats also comply with EN471:1994, which surprises me; the average rail worker that I see in the EasyJet style waistcoat doesn't catch the eye anything like as well as the yellow waistcoats.

I have a 'mesh' style waistcoat to the same design (more comfortable / less smelly in summer!) as well as one of the standard style - one Jobsworth at Bournemouth once pointed out that the mesh was non-compliant with EN471 and that I should obtain one which was compliant!! :D