ATTENTION: All Regional New Hires

[SEVEN]

Please do the rest of us and the entire industry a favor and STOP WEARING BACKPACKS AND IPODS while in uniform. You don't walk down the terminal wearing a baseball cap, the same rule applies to backpacks. While on duty and in uniform, stop looking like you're on your way to Biology class. If you absolutely have to bring a backpack, please put it on your roller bag. Also, you don't need to wear sunglasses in the terminal, it's not that bright. They don't make you look "cool" or "hip."

 

[John Pennekamp]

Please do the rest of us and the entire industry a favor and STOP WEARING BACKPACKS AND IPODS while in uniform. You don't walk down the terminal wearing a baseball cap, the same rule applies to backpacks. While on duty and in uniform, stop looking like you're on your way to Biology class. If you absolutely have to bring a backpack, please put it on your roller bag. Also, you don't need to wear sunglasses in the terminal, it's not that bright. They don't make you look "cool" or "hip."

Yes mom. What an idiot.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Also, you don't need to wear sunglasses in the terminal, it's not that bright. They don't make you look "cool" or "hip."

It's always sunny in the land of cool.

 

[shamrock]

I'm not a new-hire, but I'm just wondering if I'm allowed to use my iPod on a 3.5 hour "Airport Appreciation" break. I get bored easily and I find a little Barry Manilow helps.

Just wanted to clear it with the iPod police to save myself any further embarrassment.

 

[SEVEN]

I'm not a new-hire, but I'm just wondering if I'm allowed to use my iPod on a 3.5 hour "Airport Appreciation" break. I get bored easily and I find a little Barry Manilow helps.

Just wanted to clear it with the iPod police to save myself any further embarrassment.

As long as your not walking down the terminal, jamming to your ipod and wearing your top gun sunglasses on your epaulettes.

 

[flyer172r]

So when I saw a United captain wearing a backpack in ORD last week, was that ok because he wasn't a newhire? Or is it ok because he didn't have spikey hair?

 

[shamrock]

As long as your not walking down the terminal, jamming to your ipod and wearing your top gun sunglasses on your epaulettes.

Phewww! Guess I'm OK then. I wear my Oakleys on top of my head, not on my epaulettes.

 

[whatitdoing?]

Who cares? I'd be more concerned with the yellow armpit stains I see all the time.

 

[SEVEN]

Who cares? I'd be more concerned with the yellow armpit stains I see all the time.

Good point.

 

[paulsalem]

No loosening your tie, or going without a tie in public either.

 

[say again]

And polish your damn shoes!!:laugh:

 

[JediNein]

So if it's not an Ipod I'm fine, right? BTW, it's not a backpack, it's a computer case. If my hair looks spikey it's because I just got up and am currently stumbling my way to the nearest washroom to take care of the problem.

Finally, these shoes are polished and if you get any closer, you'd better have decent smelling breath, no B.O., be 5'4" minimum, have something other than a very large beer gut, have a friendly personality, and be ready to share your phone number. Unless you're the captain of my next or previous flight, in which case the above doesn't apply except I'm hoping for the decent breath and no B.O.

Carry on.

 

[FR8mastr]

Also, you don't need to wear sunglasses in the terminal, it's not that bright. They don't make you look "cool" or "hip."

They might be "scrips" and when you are always wearing them, you sometimes dont even realize they are still on unless it gets really dark. Not everyone is trying to be cool with sunglasses.

 

[whatitdoing?]

I had an FO while on IOE take his headset and stick the boom down below and let one rip. He laughed really hard until he saw I wasn't laughing. WTF!!??

 

[Paul R. Smith]

I think the whole backpack thing is a throwback from military thinking. ...You don't wear a satchel over your shoulder or a backpack because it covers (disrespects) your rank (epaulettes). I think it looks tacky. But We arent in the military.

I gotta have my ipod for the commute delays to and from work. I honestly don't care what other people do.

 

[Paul R. Smith]

I had an FO while on IOE take his headset and stick the boom down below and let one rip. He laughed really hard until he saw I wasn't laughing. WTF!!??

Company headset or his own personal headset? If its a company headset he pulled that with....PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS!!!!

 

[SELFloadingCRGO]

What if someone happens to wear their backpack instead of putting it on the ol' rollerboard because the handle is broke? Or what about if someone has a hands free ear piece for their cellphone, is that at least ok?
All these rules are really starting to confuse me...

 

[joesmiley]

Sorry gotta have the ipod to help drown out captains who have no future at a regional and want to whine about it.

 

[AWACoff]

What did all of the ADD First Officers do before the Ipod came out? Is the requirement for constant stimulation that great? This entire social phenomena is bizarre. Maybe they have all read Fahrenheit 451 too many times and actually believe they are living the book.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

BACKPACK SONG

Backpack Backpack Backpack Backpack
I'm the Backpack
Loaded up with things and nick nacs too
Anything that you might need I got inside for you.
Backpack Backpack Backpack Backpack
YEAH!

 

[say again]

I enjoy my music and will continue to wear my iPod. For those that don't like it, scream all you want because I wont be able to hear ya anyways. I also like to "loosen" the tie every once in a while-helps me to breath and cool down. :beer:

 

[chimichanga]

Also, you don't need to wear sunglasses in the terminal, it's not that bright. They don't make you look "cool" or "hip."

Hey, man... my sunglasses on my face and my cellphone on my ear are part of my image! You think I'm gonna give it up just because I'm inside?

 

[landlover]

the regionals are so gay. new hires are lame, crusty old captains are lame. i saw a regional captain jumpseating wearing his id in one of those ramper style arm band deals. he even had his sleeves rolled up on his shirt to show it off. what a tool! god im glad i dont work at a regional.

 

[Jmoney]

Not at a regional?

the regionals are so gay. new hires are lame, crusty old captains are lame. i saw a regional captain jumpseating wearing his id in one of those ramper style arm band deals. he even had his sleeves rolled up on his shirt to show it off. what a tool! god im glad i dont work at a regional.

Why are you slumming here if you are not at a regional? Why don't you go over to the "flying checks in a broke-a$s Piper" board? Maybe you can find inspiration with more of your bretheren there.....

Yeah, everyone hates the oakley-wearing, I-Pod jamming (dave mathews-usually) spikey-haired little punks we run into. I think these come in the orientation pkg. down at riddle and some folks take these things with them into the "professional" world.

-Lame

 

[Stifler's Mom]

BACKPACK SONG

Backpack Backpack Backpack Backpack
I'm the Backpack
Loaded up with things and nick nacs too
Anything that you might need I got inside for you.
Backpack Backpack Backpack Backpack
YEAH!

Only people with small children will get that one.

Hi Dora.

 

[pilot772]

Please do the rest of us and the entire industry a favor and STOP WEARING BACKPACKS AND IPODS while in uniform. You don't walk down the terminal wearing a baseball cap, the same rule applies to backpacks. While on duty and in uniform, stop looking like you're on your way to Biology class. If you absolutely have to bring a backpack, please put it on your roller bag. Also, you don't need to wear sunglasses in the terminal, it's not that bright. They don't make you look "cool" or "hip."

I would say that a majority of the pilots out there that are wearing backpacks around the terminal are FFDO's. remember the piece has to be with you at all times: doing the walk around, bathroom or food break, or just telling the gate agent something. Almost all of the guys at my company that I see carrying a backpack are actually "carrying" the Osama killer. So when you go and make fun of guys for wearing their backpacks around think twice about it and maybe they have made the week long sacrifice to defend the flight deck.

 

[landlover]

Why are you slumming here if you are not at a regional? Why don't you go over to the "flying checks in a broke-a$s Piper" board? Maybe you can find inspiration with more of your bretheren there.....

Yeah, everyone hates the oakley-wearing, I-Pod jamming (dave mathews-usually) spikey-haired little punks we run into. I think these come in the orientation pkg. down at riddle and some folks take these things with them into the "professional" world.

-Lame

i'm slumming because it's entertaining and fun, same reason i go slumming in real life. correction its "flying autoparts in a clapped out falcon 20 & lear24 with more cycles then the tour de france".

 

[Turtlesfly]

YEah, I was going to say, saw a mainline CAL guy wear a backpack in the uniform too. It's not just the new ones.

(Like that drug commercial from the 80's . . . I learned it by watching you!!!)

 

[Dan Roman]

Personally I could care care less how a guy looks.
I do know this, anyone who runs around pointing fingers usually has a lot more problems than the people he is pointing fingers at.

 

[Spidey]

Sorry gotta have the ipod to help drown out captains who have no future at a regional and want to whine about it.

...no soup for you!