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Say you're an ACSO or AESOP without saying you're an ACSO or AESOP...
RCAF Flight Suit (ALSE) - Split from VAdm Norman
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Eye In The Sky
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The hybrid shirt, I get that for sure. I'm actually not sure about the rest. I didn't find the tan flying stuff any cooler than the green ones, I'd say they breathed LESS for some odd reason.
But, ya arid pattern on a ship?
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You haven't washed it 50 times and watch it become aircrew lingerie.
Eye In The Sky
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Eye In The Sky
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lingerie LOL LOL
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The hybrid shirt, I get that for sure. I'm actually not sure about the rest. I didn't find the tan flying stuff any cooler than the green ones, I'd say they breathed LESS for some odd reason.
But, ya arid pattern on a ship?
How much cooler does one need to get in the middle of the North Atlantic ? Lol
Eye In The Sky
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Is that just standard now, regardless of where the ship is going??
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Eye In The Sky
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Ok, I'm a bit curious.
SKT; what's the thought process on this? I'm baffled - even when we went on CARIBBE and it was hot as bawls, we still went in green. The only times I was in tan stuff was IMPACT.
I’ve never understood why the Navy wants to be camouflaged in the water. Everyone can see the boat, and if you fall in the water I’m pretty sure you’re not playing hide-and-seek.
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Maybe the crews should have asked for tan?
It’s not on your SOI…. It’s not on your CFTPO… does not compute…
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NCDs are flat black, the RCAF are the ones wearing camo or tan. You maybe thinking of tte USN “blueberries” which are being phased out.
If the Navy really wanted to be visible in the water then our NCDs should be a bright orange. But then I doubt they’d be very popular as “Walking Out” dress.
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Seems to work okay for some RCAF types 
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Flight suits are cooler than NCDs, unless you’re fat.Seems to work okay for some RCAF types
Eye In The Sky
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I haven't seen any high-tension orange flight suits...but I can't say the same for green ones.
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The new SAR flying suit to compare to proposed ATLAS:
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Don’t really know. I thought the green nomex suits were a massive improvement on the blue wool flight suits. I have never tried the arid suits.
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I've been following the ATLAS progression on RCafe. They look similar, but the proposal came out before the SAR Tech suits were publicized.
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I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but the ATLAS suit is meant only as a concept prototype. The positive aspects will be retained and incorporated into whatever the new version will look like, which, when I last checked, was not expected to be in final development for several years to come. Unless someone can convince the Comd RCAF to write off the 14,000 off pairs of one-piece suits recently procured and the 5-7k sets of two-piece CADPAT versions, there is no appetite to expedite the process.
