flight suit question

[Astro]

There's a sleeve with a button flap and a side opening on the inner left thigh just below where my plums sit. What is this strange pocket for?

[Gunner]

parachute shroud cutter pocket / knife pocket

[Flying Pig]

I had a custom flight suit ordered and had that pocket left off.

[avbug]

I remove the pocket on my flight suits.

 

The fabric you remove, if saved, is handy for small patches.

[aeroscout]

There's a sleeve with a button flap and a side opening on the inner left thigh just below where my plums sit. What is this strange pocket for?

Some men are bigger than others...

-William Wallace-

[Dnr032]

VS-17 Signal Panel Marker and parachute cord.

[Gomer Pylot]

The original use was to store the safety pin for the ejection seat when in flight. You pull the pin from the seat during runup, and put it there so it doesn't fly around in the cockpit during combat operations. After landing, during the shutdown checklist, you put it back into the seat. Apparently it's not possible to modify flightsuits, and that pocket is still there on all of them. You can put whatever you like in it.

[WolftalonID]

Makes me want to get a nice cotter pin and put it in that pocket....then on shut down ask my student to put it back....wait for him/her to ask what it is and where it goes...then tell em it was the safty pin for the ejection seat!!!

 

Hopefully they ask....it would suck to just watch them shove it in some random place on the heli like it belonged there!

[Wally]

The original use was to store the safety pin for the ejection seat when in flight. You pull the pin from the seat during runup, and put it there so it doesn't fly around in the cockpit during combat operations. After landing, during the shutdown checklist, you put it back into the seat. Apparently it's not possible to modify flightsuits, and that pocket is still there on all of them. You can put whatever you like in it.

I wish that was true... Last year, some pointy head ordered pilot flight suits without the "pants pockets" or the open-top thigh EMS tool pockets. The medics got all that stuff and an additional open top tool pocket on the lower leg.

[Flying Pig]

I got one from Gibson and Barnes (I think) and it looked like a regular OD green military suit but you could move adjust the pockets. I had that inner thigh pocket removed and the sleeve pen pocket.