Flight Suit

Flight Suit Notes:

  • Your flight suit should be fitted to you- not baggy.

  • It can be either a one or a two piece suit.

  • Be sure to cover any zippers.

  • Remove any external pockets on the bum. In face you will want to remove most external pockets.

  • Keep to a solid color flight suit. Patterned fabric is way too busy and distracting.

For your flight suit you can either make it from scratch, buy an off the shelf one and tailor it to you/have it tailored, or have one commissioned from scratch.

If you choose to purchase one there are a couple of options:

  • Coveralls

  • Flight Suit

  • Medical Scrubs (You can have your flight suit as a tighter fitting two piece flight suit. This can be accomplished with under armor or other shirt/leggings combinations, as long as the colors and materials match. Solid color blocking is allowed as well, but no patterns.)

Coveralls.

Dickies has great coveralls now for both men and women.

Women's coveralls come in short sleeve and long sleeve options.

Short sleeved women's Dickies are about $50 and can be purchased on their site here.

Long sleeved women's Dickies are about $60 and can be purchased on their site here.

Dickies has several options for mens' coveralls, short and long sleeves, and various materials. They range from $35- $55 depending on the ones you want, though we do not recommend the thermal insulated ones. You can buy them on their site here.

Flight suits

You can usually find these at Army/Navy Surplus stores. Expect to pay around $40-$60 at a surplus store.


TruSpec and RothCo make flight suits as well that are easy to purchase online.

You till typically need to tailor them to fit you, which is a fairly simple process.


Pre-made suits may need additional edits such as removing zippered pockets, etc.

TruSpec flight suits can be purchased on their site here. And are about $62. You are limited on colors, however.

RothCo flight suits can be purchased on their website here. They are also about $62, but you have a few more color options.

Making your own.

If you are comfortable sewing your own, your color and fabric options are nearly endless! Below are some patterns we recommend to get started. These are fairly simple patterns as a flight suit is actually pretty simple construction wise!

We do recommend you pick a fabric that is something such as a cotton so it is breathable, but has some stretch in it, for ease of movement.

A great pattern to use is Kwik Sew K3389. You can get it on Amazon here as well as JoAnn in store.

Another pattern we recommend is the new McCalls M2054 pattern, which you can find on their site here and in *some* JoAnn stores.