Discussion: Leather Uniform Jackets

[Occam's Razor]

If we were serious about leather flight jackets, they'd be one of two options:

1. USN/USMC "cruise" jackets. Brown, with faded fur collars and ratty, torn cuffs. Huge colorful patches denoting weiner-chafing stretches at sea, or 100-traps on an old scow that puts you on "water hours" every 3 days. (No...I don't miss "Midway Magic"!). Road-Warrior name tags with cool names like "Max Knots" and "Bud Fugger". They must be brown goatskin...covered with coffee and skydrol stains, and must not match the uniform you're wearing them with.

2. REAL leather jackets! Fuzzy-side-out deerskin, in a western cut, with 6-inch long fringe! Dusty-brown in color, and always one-size too large. (Optional: A$$less chaps with your airline's logo branded into the right thigh)

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I say the leather AND the hat is the way to go.

It seems uniform choice is like a merger... no one is happy with the choices or results...

The trench coat is standard...

The leather is all too common now... Only the DAL boys don't wear them...

The hat? Whenever a organization wants to specify the image of an Air Line Pilot...there is the hat.....

 

[PCL_128]

Are they cool or are they for spikey hair, Tom Cruise wannabe's.

The latter.

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

 

[CFI2766]

What's really cool and non-homo is a navy blazer and a stalker trenchcoat coupled with a 20k W2 and topped off with a chauffer hat.

Wait a minute, I resemble that remark...

damn it...

 

[LanceAir]

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.[/quote]


Right.....:erm:

What would you suggest wearing in the COLD weather then, a windbreaker?

I dont know much about Memphis, (and quite honestly, I am really happy about that) but up in the north it's cold.....the blazer and the trench just don't cut it. Youre welcome to come "hangout" with me on the LGA ramp, I'll be warm, wearing a "gay" leather jacket, and you can stand there in your blazer and trench knowing that you look super "hetero" and not like a ******************************bag.......

 

[PCL_128]

What would you suggest wearing in the COLD weather then, a windbreaker?

Blazer and trench coat. If you're still cold, then wear thermal underwear. I feel just fine with the trenchcoat, though, and I'm based up north in DTW.

 

[belchfire]

Leather is more durable, more functional and if the taco bell sauce gets on it you just have to wipe it off. You don't have to drag around the striped polyester lounge lizzard jacked (I fly a freighter, not the Graf Zepplin or a Pan Am Clipper) a trench coat and another coat to wear out to the bar for supper. All of this and they piss PETA off too! What more could you ask from a jacket?

PCL, if you want to run around looking like a throwback to the '40's, that's fine for you. Too bad you'll never have the pay or the respect your fancy ugliform commands...

 

[AAslag]

The latter.

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

If you're wearing a trench coat, then you look like a d0uchbag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Trench coats are just plain gay in any situation.

I'm a spy, and I should know!

 

[Booker]

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

Well that changes my mind.

 

[Nindiri]

Do they even still make the blazers?:nuts: I haven't worn one in years. I either wear the leather jacket or the trenchcoat without the blazer, depending on which kind of "gay" I decide to look like that day.

 

[TNPILOT]

Nothing looks more unprofessional than an airline pilot in a leather jacket.

 

[AAslag]

Well that changes my mind.

Don't care dude. Within the guidelines I'll wear whatever I want.

 

[AAslag]

Nothing looks more unprofessional than an airline pilot in a leather jacket.

Actually nothing looks more unprofessional than what most EMB145 FO's make.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The latter.

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

Sorry son..but look slightly left.... Big Bill Hopson is more of a man than you or I will ever be... he is the pure definition on an Air Line Pilot....

He was a soul aviator counting on only one thing..... himself.... in his day he relied on his skill, experience and instinct. He didn't have an enclosed cockpit, turbines, EGPWS, ILS, anti skid, and cowl heat. He also didn't have an Association to back up his right to PIC authority. He was killed before Dave got it started.

You and I are not worthy, if possible, to wipe the oil off his cowling or gas his aircraft.

Big Bill wore leather....

The Perrone leather jacket that many of us wear is so common one might get to use it at different airlines as I have... I can tell you that my leather jacket is more reliable than the dirt bag airlines I've been furloughed. With accumulating employee numbers on the inside liner as my "career" progresses...

Now that you've thrown every Naval Aviator, including my family, and USAF pilot AND Air Line Pilots at most airlines under the bus... Leather jackets have been a common icon to all types of aviators.

One of the reasons I like my leather jacket cause in this industry sometimes it is the only thing I can count on.....

No one is forcing you to buy or wear it..... so how are you harmed?

 

[PCL_128]

Sorry son..but look slightly left.... Big Bill Hopson is more of a man than you or I will ever be... he is the pure definition on an Air Line Pilot....

He was a soul aviator counting on only one thing..... himself.... in his day he relied on his skill, experience and instinct. He didn't have an enclosed cockpit, turbines, EGPWS, ILS, anti skid, and cowl heat. He also didn't have an Association to back up his right to PIC authority. He was killed before Dave got it started.

You and I are not worthy, if possible, to wipe the oil off his cowling or gas his aircraft.

Big Bill wore leather....

Big Bill lived and flew three quarters of a century ago in open-cockpit biplanes. What he wore is no longer relevant. In uniform, the jacket looks unprofessional. In casual situation, it makes you look like you have no fashion sense. Sorry.

 

[AAslag]

If my company let me wear jeans and a tee shirt, well, I would'nt do it!

I simply do not like the concept. I don't like tee shirts.

Jeans, cowboy boots and flannel. Thats OK.

Mein Got, what gymnasium do you guys come from. Oh, forgot you want to work for the uber airline.

 

[Homer Jay]

Big Bill lived and flew three quarters of a century ago in open-cockpit biplanes. What he wore is no longer relevant. In uniform, the jacket looks unprofessional. In casual situation, it makes you look like you have no fashion sense. Sorry.

You hit the nail on the head! The leather coat is completely retarded! It kills me when guys say, "but you can take the patches and epaulettes off and wear it on overnights." Are you SERIOUS?!?! We have a name for the guys that wear them at my airline. We call them " the leathers". Don't get me wrong, I'm not out to impress when I'm on a trip, but I wouldn't be caught dead wearing one of those ugly a$$ things!

 

[NuGuy]

(Optional: A$$less chaps with your airline's logo branded into the right thigh)

I hear these will be a no-cost item from management. Apparently they allow better access....

Nu

 

[AAslag]

You hit the nail on the head! The leather coat is completely retarded! It kills me when guys say, "but you can take the patches and epaulettes off and wear it on overnights." Are you SERIOUS?!?! We have a name for the guys that wear them at my airline. We call them " the leathers". Don't get me wrong, I'm not out to impress when I'm on a trip, but I wouldn't be caught dead wearing one of those ugly a$$ things!

Oh, I'm scared. Please don't call me....."THE LEATHERS"

Don't worry we ( leathers) will not catch you dead.

 

[CopilotDoug]

Sorry son..but look slightly left.... Big Bill Hopson is more of a man than you or I will ever be... he is the pure definition on an Air Line Pilot....

Bill Hopson was a dumba$$ who pulled stupid, maniacal stunts and got himself killed. I'm surprised that you'd endorse a nut like this, Rez. Luckily he didn't take anyone with him.