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In a L2 you've got a fairly roomy cockpit but no little extra seat (like in a BC-12) to put all your flight gear. Reaching behind, while strappedin, is a bear... so stuff in the rear seat is basically out of reach. Dropping something on the floor is asking for double-trouble (a) You got you head down chasing as best you can by feel, or (b) it gets into cevices for the rear stick/rudder pedals and you lock up the controls. Today, I think I came up with a solution.
An old hunting vest. (1) It's cool because it's not a coat.SO you can use it all the time. (2) Everything fits, extra maps, writing utensils, radio batteries, back up radio, whiz wheel, flash-light, rulers, flight plan, writing pad, sun glasses, even a sandwich and bottle of water. I even found that sticking the chocks, which I haul by a string and in last, once I'm secure at the brake pedals have a place in the front game bag. (3) The pockets pooch out over the lap belt, but under the shoulder harness. SO you're in tight but you can get to the pockets of the hunting vest. (4) Blaze orange looks enough like safety orange that people think you're wearing an expensive custom made survival vest and not going hunting. I probably look like the pilot for the Pillsbury dough boy... but it seems to work. Mine's an old Filson Vest that is too raggedy to pull through bush and therefore has been otherwise retired.
How about you? Where's all your gear go... particularly in an L2?
With regards; ED OBRIEN
An old hunting vest. (1) It's cool because it's not a coat.SO you can use it all the time. (2) Everything fits, extra maps, writing utensils, radio batteries, back up radio, whiz wheel, flash-light, rulers, flight plan, writing pad, sun glasses, even a sandwich and bottle of water. I even found that sticking the chocks, which I haul by a string and in last, once I'm secure at the brake pedals have a place in the front game bag. (3) The pockets pooch out over the lap belt, but under the shoulder harness. SO you're in tight but you can get to the pockets of the hunting vest. (4) Blaze orange looks enough like safety orange that people think you're wearing an expensive custom made survival vest and not going hunting. I probably look like the pilot for the Pillsbury dough boy... but it seems to work. Mine's an old Filson Vest that is too raggedy to pull through bush and therefore has been otherwise retired.
How about you? Where's all your gear go... particularly in an L2?
With regards; ED OBRIEN
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