Fishing vest as a cockpit organizer

On 28 Oct 2005 10:46:27 -0700, "Andrew Sarangan"
wrote:


Since the topic of cockpit organization always comes up, has anyone
tried using fishing vest? It has many pockets that appears to be a good
solution for a cockpit, but I don't what the drawbacks are. Here is a
brief writeup about fishing vests.

I tried what's really a travel vest that I got from REI. It's
marginal. With three layers of pockets in some places, it's sometimes
hard to know which slit to put your hand into; in a hot cockpit it's a
couple of extra layers of sweat-producing clothing; and it makes me
look like more of a doofus than usual.

Don

in a hot cockpit it's a couple of extra layers of sweat-producing clothing...

I agree.

I wear one when I'm fishing; it's extremely useful because fising
involves carryng a lot of small to medium-size objects.

It would be utterly inappropriate, however, for flying. Pockets are
too small for charts or approach plates or almost anything else I
carry in my bag.

vince norris

At the risk of admitting my addiction to Stargate tv series,
there are any number of companies that have what are known as
"tactical" vests. For example,

www.lapolicegear.com/5tave.html
www.copsplus.com/prodnum3214.php

or just search for "tactical vest"

Just make sure that it doesn't clash with your B5 or Trek uniform...

(*snorfle*)