Regional Pilots with "B-747" stickers on their flight bags

[dash8driver]

Whats that apple sticker all about?

its the mark of the iSheep.






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[COOPERVANE]

"our pilots carry less than 20 dollars"


favorite sticker on my bag


(and true)

 

[better up here]

this may not be original (i've never seen it...), but a pilot at our base has a stitched luggage strip on his handle (usually says crew or LAX etc.) that reads - NOT YOUR BAG.

thought that was clever.

 

[Spidey]

"our pilots carry less than 20 dollars"


favorite sticker on my bag


(and true)

That's funny! Mach 1 at 200' looking for a carrier, with a bad nav system makes ya sweat too, cheers! But not as much as being Hillary's pilot-she is Satan, I know! Merry Christmas!

 

[crzepilot]

I have some sweet Cessna stickers on my lunch box, as well as a sticker for the F-14 I flew on Flight Simulator. It was so sweet. I did like knife edge passes and stuff all over the place. Everyone tells me that if I can flight the Flight Sim F-14 it is just like the real thing.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

its the same as gojets guys with united crewtags. gay

saw that last night...talk about identity crises!!

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Whats that apple sticker all about?

The Apple logo for the ipod.

Still not as funny as the Freedom pilot in ATL the other day with a " I Heart Vidal Sassoon Hair Gel" sticker on his bag.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Ok. I'll share my opinion on the matter.

When I was furloughed from US Airways and working for Comair I had a "Boeing 737" sticker and a "DC9 Flight Crew" sticker on my flight kit.

When doing airplane swaps I would sometimes see another crewmember with a 737, 747, 777, etc... sticker on their bag.

Whenever I saw that I would ask them, "So who did you fly the 737 for?". Wondering if, perhaps, they too were furloughed from US Airways or another carrier. It was nice to chat with a kindred spirit, even if just for a few minutes.

9 times out of 10 though, they never flew the airplane whose sticker adorned their bag. I admit that I kind of felt like that made them a "poser" (to use the kid's lingo). I felt like having the sticker implied that you had passed initial on that equipment.

Now, that being said, at the entrance to the trailer park (read: crew room) in CVG was a sign that said, "Through these doors pass the world's finest airline pilots". Clearly the world's finest airline pilots probably DON'T pass through those doors (although admittedly a handful of them are very talented...) So there is a culture of misrepresentation designed to boost one's ego.

RJ pilots need all the ego boost they can get, because they sure as heck dont get it from their paychecks. So, as Barney says, "SUIT UP!" or, in this case, "STICKER UP!" kids!

 

[J32driver]

When I was furloughed from US Airways ...

Thats what I was going to add to this. I use to have FO's show up with 747,757,767 stickers on their flight kits. It kinda annoyed me until we got to talking and I realized they were furloughed from some legacy and had actually flown all those airplanes.

 

[say again]

How does one get a sticker to stay on their backpack??

 

[enuffalready]

WHO F'ing CARES

Guys, do you really take time out of your day to see what sticker some guy has on his bag? Other than to determine if it is your bag in the crew lounge, who cares if it says SR-71, concord, 747, or skywawk? Notice to all you knob pilots. I know you all take such enormous pride in your aircraft but nobody else cares. I would be willing to bet, even those of you who got married, your wives would be happy if you never mentioned it again. so, who really cares if someone has a sticker about some plane he may or may not have flown... go get a coffee or something

 

[Mesabi Miner]

My sticker says, "Crap! The left intake heat failed again."

MM

 

[Flyprdu]

My roommate in the crash pad here in DTW is an FO on the RJ and he was an FE on the 747-200/300 until getting furoughed from a cargo company. He has a 747 sticker on his bag. Just like others have said you cant pass judgement on these guys because you dont know there backrounds...

 

[FurloughedAgain]

I didn't pass judgement on anyone... I just asked them, "Where did you fly the _____?"

If they never flew it, I just found it a little poser-ish that they would put a sticker on their bag.

Best sticker I ever saw, by the way, was on the bag of an F/O who looked like he was about 12 years old.

It said, "Don't tell my Mom. She thinks i'm at the movies!"

 

[Flyprdu]

I didn't pass judgement on anyone... I just asked them, "Where did you fly the _____?"

If they never flew it, I just found it a little poser-ish that they would put a sticker on their bag.

Best sticker I ever saw, by the way, was on the bag of an F/O who looked like he was about 12 years old.

It said, "Don't tell my Mom. She thinks i'm at the movies!"

You are right though pretty poser-ish.. if they havnt flown the thing before... I do agree with that.

2 part... great sticker..

 

[doh]

At least his 747 dream could at some point become reality, your dream don't have a chance in hell:laugh:

That would be funny if it weren't so brutally true.

 

[realmanofgenius]

on the subject of building one's ego's, i once knew a guy, a piedmont lineman at the time, who was trying to build time. i told him he could ride with me in a baron i was flying and fly the empty legs. he showed up to fly and he had a full uniform and 4 bars on. i said what's up with that? he said flight safety in vero let us wear these.

don't flight schools issue two bars to CFIs?

i could tell he had an identity crisis. stickers are a form of expression.what about those who have everything but the kitchen sink on it. even somehting as gay as Sam's club member. are they crazy, losers, overzealous or just trying to find themselves?

 

[marycon]

I have a DTW Crew tag that has the NW logo on it. I also have a Mesaba crew tag as well as that is who I fly for. I do not pretend to fly for NW.

I do have that tag as it makes the overnight bag even more noticeable since we have to have crew bags with the cargo in the Saab. It helps keeping the bag from being pulled at every outstation as if it were a pax bag and then you end up at an overnight with no bag. Many people also have these as well as other home made tags etc just for this reason.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

... they think they're flying with a newbie solely based on employee number, then realize the guy to the right of them has more experience.

<grin> One of my first trips after IOE at Comair I showed up at the airplane to find the Captain holding court with a bunch of other pilots on the ramp next to the airplane. I nodded at him, went outside, and preflighted the airplane.

A little while later he sat down in the cockpit and asked how long I had been with the company.

"I just got off IOE last week", I responded.

"Well don't worry. Won't be long before you have stories to tell." He said.

He then proceeded to brief me and, during his briefing he told me that he would take the first few legs and if it looked like things were going ok, he would have me fly later in the day.

So the Captain flew the first two legs and then asked, "So what do you think? You ready to fly a leg?"

I responded, "Well... maybe I better watch you fly a few more legs."

So he flew a few more and then we went to the hotel.

The next morning we showed up at the airport and the Captain said, "So you think you're ready to fly a leg?"

"Jeez boss," I replied, "I forgot most of what I saw yesterday. Why don't you fly a few more?"

So he flew a few more legs. About halfway through day two I guess he started to run out of things about himself to talk about and he asked me, "So how long have you been flight instructing?"

I said, "Actually I haven't flight-instructed in about ten years."

He then queried, "Oh... so what kind of flying have you been doing?"

To which I responded, "I was a 737 first officer for US Airways. Got furloughed in March."

To which HE responded, "So why am I flying all of the legs???"

I just grinned. He didn't buy the drinks the second night.

 

[shamrock]

I admire your restraint, FurloughedAgain. Don't think I would've had the patience to let it go that long.

 

[siucavflight]

Wow, now we are concerned with stickers?

 

[Mr Wu]

How does one get a sticker to stay on their backpack??

Dried up hair gel.

 

[regionaltard]

I'm having a hard time deciding who's more pathetic-flight bag sticker posers or the people who are bothered by them. That's a contest for second place BTW; the guy who showed up in a uniform for some free Baron time is the undisputed champion. I wouldn't get into an airplane with someone that crazy on a dare.

 

[Rally]

I wonder why I think that only the regionals forum would have a post like this? What if a major guy has a Concorde or Space Shuttle sticker? Or a cub or stearman sticker, we all know they are better pilots then most of the regional pilots. LOL Grow up.

And BTW I love the spikey hair, backpack, ipod wearing jokes. They are funny but probably only a small % of the population. How about the real issue lets dress professionally. Not black tennis shoes! Next topic please.

 

[propsarebest]

Brian, over there, has 37 pieces of flair!

 

[DX Rick]

What about those pilots with their favorite sports team sticker? Who do they think they're kidding!?

 

[better up here]

don't flight schools issue two bars to CFIs?

my school -

1 bar pvt
2 bar comm
3 bar cfi
4 bar chk air and chief

think they did it to be more 121ish.

always thought it was a bit over the top, starting clicks before we even got to a regional. but like the previous post stated, it gave us something to shoot for. not all bad i guess.

 

[Spidey]

Hillary 08 sticker-bearer's will be stomped to oblivion on-site...unless they are lesbian-type copilots...we'll need to talk in the hotel bar...conversion can be tedious work.

 

[Spidey]

Dried up hair gel.

Your sister has potential, youtube was weak...any yt's of beerbottlesis?!?

 

[bombinha]

Or is just a guy with actal heavy experience but no PIC time and trying to get quick PIC time to improve his resume.
I myself might be in this situation pretty soon and I fly whales but because my lack of jet PIC can't get upgraded neither move to another job because no airline wants a low/no jet PIC time guy.