Gloves

[Alpha_Echo_606]

If anyone can find a working link to a 2002 Approach article called "Stuck on a Shock Absorber" you'll see a closeup of me flipping off the camera and the reason why I wear gloves preflight to postflight. Basically, I got fishooked right through my middle fingertip by a piece of braided safety wire while preflighting a Phrog. Didn't really hurt until the corpsman yanked it out with a pair of needle nose pliers.

And that is why I wear gloves at work 99% of the time. I've had quite a few close calls with safety wire and cotter pins; both will rip you open in a heartbeat.

 

[HeyJoe]

Using the alternative prefight option to keep potential fluids from impregnating the flight gloves

100805-N-6106P-001 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Aug. 5, 2010) Lt. Rocky Argobright, an instructor pilot assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120, completes his walk-around inspection before conducting a carrier field landing practice mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Clark Pierce/Released)

 

[HackerF15E]

keep potential fluids from impregnanting

Well said.

 

[Birdbrain]

Thread revive 14 years later - I flew with issued gloves (tips cut off/sewn) in Primary and I/A-Jet, flew with Wiley X Aries issued in the RAG, my first deployment wore Aries because the penalty for not wearing them was SDO, and now I have a pair of Wiley X Orions because my Aries bust and we had no supply of extras in my size….never thought I’d say this but full finger gloves are totally fine.

Kind of curious, I may order some issued gloves from the PRs and go full old school on this.

Also kind of curious - what are flight glove regs? Could one wear Royal Blue flight gloves to be a knob and still have it be in regs??

 

[ea6bflyr]

Thread revive 14 years later - I flew with issued gloves (tips cut off/sewn) in Primary and I/A-Jet, flew with Wiley X Aries issued in the RAG, my first deployment wore Aries because the penalty for not wearing them was SDO, and now I have a pair of Wiley X Orions because my Aries bust and we had no supply of extras in my size….never thought I’d say this but full finger gloves are totally fine.

Kind of curious, I may order some issued gloves from the PRs and go full old school on this.

Also kind of curious - what are flight glove regs? Could one wear Royal Blue flight gloves to be a knob and still have it be in regs??

As long as they are fire resistant

OPNAVINST 3710.7U:

 

[insanebikerboy]

Thread revive 14 years later - I flew with issued gloves (tips cut off/sewn) in Primary and I/A-Jet, flew with Wiley X Aries issued in the RAG, my first deployment wore Aries because the penalty for not wearing them was SDO, and now I have a pair of Wiley X Orions because my Aries bust and we had no supply of extras in my size….never thought I’d say this but full finger gloves are totally fine.

Kind of curious, I may order some issued gloves from the PRs and go full old school on this.

Also kind of curious - what are flight glove regs? Could one wear Royal Blue flight gloves to be a knob and still have it be in regs??

You will definitely notice a difference with the old school ones. The Wiley X gloves give a lot of tactile feedback that you won’t have with the standard flight glove.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Probably said this here before, but I always used my navy issued gloves. Specifically for the walk from the catwalk up to the jet, and post-flight, during the walk back down below. As soon as I got up onto the LEX, they went back into my g-suit pockets where they would remain until I got back out. Never heard a word about it from anyone, just don't get caught up on the steel with turning airplanes without them. It has been years now since I knew where they are. Probably in the bottom of some box I shipped home from my last deployment.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Probably in the bottom of some box I shipped home from my last deployment.

I found my version of that box a couple of years ago when I was going through some things in my basement. Still smelled like the Boat.

I still fly with Aries or the OR Overlord ones in ejection-seat equipped aircraft or elevated-risk test points in civil aircraft (e.g. runway performance).