CFI Uniforms

[LAXSaabdude]

The worst I've seen in terms of professional is the school out here that wears airline shirt, airline wings, name tag, airline stripes, and........shorts with sneakers.

Hey, what's wrong with that? Isn't that how the lead singer from AC/DC dressed?

LAXsaabdude

 

[VNugget]

Guitarist. (Angus Young)

 

[340drvr]

The professional level of dress should be commensurate with the pay scale, so for most of us, that would be the moth-eaten Salvation Army overcoat, fingerless gloves, and maybe a shopping cart for that extra quality touch.

("UATW,MF!" Grace Slick)

 

[VNugget]

On a slightly related subject, I always pondered what it would be like if I showed up to my PPL (or for that matter, any other) checkride all death-metalled out... including the torn and studded leather, white make-up, some insane hairstyle, etc.... but still amaze the DE with my impeccable skills and knowledge.

Heh heh...

Who thinks I should?

 

[acaTerry]

i bet it must feel like waking up in the morning and going to work having forgotten to put your pants on.

Don't you hate that? No one ever tells you till you get to the crew room!

 

[Foobar]

Auburn

npowless,

Is Terry still running the show at Auburn?

 

[Sctt@NJA]

I feel bad for those cfis who have to wear an airline style uniform. I have to too of course at NetJets and I always envy the corporate pilots who wear khakis and polo shirts.

But just as corporations have different cultures and dress codes so do different areas of the the country.

Ties were a specific no-no at my first cfi job in Middlebury VT. Jeans and whatever were the dress code there! The idea was to fit into the population we were serving.

We did have one student who was a lawyer that would show up in shirt and tie and we always made him take his tie off. If you can't tell we considered comfort and casual attitudes towards appearance to be an important part of our small town airport culture.

Thats a culture where character and ability were the only things that mattered.

I happen to like that attitude and I never understood the idea of "the clothes make the man".

But like I said, local culture varies...

Edit: Now that I think of it, there were a fair number of people in VT that never seemed to have discovered deoderant. Thats taking casualness a bit far even for me!

 

[bigD]

The problem with wearing heavy clothing like slacks and a dress shirt around here is within minutes of being in the airplane you'll be covered in patches where your sweat soaked through your pants, shirt, or whatever. Looking like that looks even worse than more casual clothing to most, so all the flight schools here generally have khaki shorts with a tucked in t-shirt and belt. I'd imagine this is a problem anywhere there's a lot of humidity.

 

[npowless]

Foobar,

Yep, she is still here ...

Nathan

 

[100LL... Again!]

Sorry - here it comes:


Dress like an airline pilot when you ARE an airline pilot.

Those bars on the uniform look ridiculous on a CFI and even worse on a student.

"Let's play dress-up and go fly the 172!!!!"

"roger"

"roger"