Flight School Uniforms on Airliners.

[goodgig]

You sure seem like a level headed individual who would not get hot under the collar due to a posting on a board deep in the bowels of a web forum.

At least that is the impression I get.

 

[BoilerUP]

sqwkvfr

Then put your money where your mouth is and go buy the cheaper gas at the other FBO, and quit whining like a friggin' nancy. He wasn't bagging on your place of employment...

 

[DX Rick]

I love it. I go on a personal flight on USAir, make a comment about some guy in his uniform, and now this guy is trying to take it out on the company I work for part time...as if I were on company time, in company clothing making coments on behalf of the company.
Thats like me seeing you at the bar, you saying Air BP sucks and I go to your boss trying to get you in trouble.

Grow up.

 

[A Squared]

Sweet Baby Jeeeeeezzzuuuuss, Skwkvfr, are you really this big a crybaby????

Apparently you work at a flight school that has the instructors and students, it seems, wearing uniforms. As patetic as that is, everyone has to have a job, so I don't hold that against you. But I think that anyone who has attained the maturity of a 15 year-old agrees that wearing said uniform on an airliner, outside of the classroom is at least 2 orders of magnitude more pathetic. Whether the individuals are instructors or students is immaterial, it's pathetic. Really, really pathetic. So, your feelings are hurt, because someone commented on how pathetic it was. Big deal. grow up, move on, get a job where you're not so ashamed of the silly uniforms that you have to explode into a defensive hissy fit when somone comments on your colleague/students' sad behavior.

You realize that by throwing this little tantrum, you've made yourself appear at least as pathetic as your uniform wearing friends, don't you?

 

[FN FAL]

They made us wear stinking pilot uniforms at our 141 school and I don't recall anyone ever being caught wearing those things outside of class except to and from. There must have been a Paradigm shift in cool guy policy since I left school...drats.

 

[sqwkvfr]

Sweet Baby Jeeeeeezzzuuuuss, Skwkvfr, are you really this big a crybaby????

Apparently you work at a flight school that has the instructors and students, it seems, wearing uniforms. As patetic as that is, everyone has to have a job, so I don't hold that against you. But I think that anyone who has attained the maturity of a 15 year-old agrees that wearing said uniform on an airliner, outside of the classroom is at least 2 orders of magnitude more pathetic. Whether the individuals are instructors or students is immaterial, it's pathetic. Really, really pathetic. So, your feelings are hurt, because someone commented on how pathetic it was. Big deal. grow up, move on, get a job where you're not so ashamed of the silly uniforms that you have to explode into a defensive hissy fit when somone comments on your colleague/students' sad behavior.

You realize that by throwing this little tantrum, you've made yourself appear at least as pathetic as your uniform wearing friends, don't you?

Uh, no...you're completely wrong.

My feeling aren't hurt....I'm simply correcting a lie....a lie that was presented in a condescending manner.

I thought it ironic that a person who claimed to be so aware of what should and shouldn't be was completely wrong, and brought it to his attention.

I like how you claim that whether these people were students or CFIs was irrelevant. I couldn't disagree more. This thread was started for the sole purpose of bagging on Oxford CFIs....many of which happen to have experience twice beyond even your's....no where in the original post does it mention the possibility that these folks were students.

These folks that DX Rick noticed were students fresh out of the UK and are quite unaware of the opinions of a few jaded, salty holier-than-thou types that happen to post messages on some board that they've never heard of.

..and reference your opinion of me...based on the completely inaccurate conclusions that you've seem to have arrived at based on your own prejudices and limited knowledge about anything that is me or us leads me to the conclusion that I simply don't care.

 

[capt. megadeth]

I'd say that you owe every single Oxford Airline Training Center instructor (most of whom have more dual given than your total time and many with TEN TIMEs that much) an apology.

Oh geez....the drama!

 

[capt. megadeth]

We do business at your FBO. Should I pass your comments on to the managing director to see if he wants to instead use SW and perhaps let your boss know why?

Oh Gawd! What are we a rat now? That is Golden Rule #1.....you never call your boss on a fellow pilot especially with something like this. Grow up!

Hey sqwkvfr.....when it comes down to it....1000 hours....2000 hours.....it's all the same. I love the "they have twice the experience you do"....oh boy. I am sorry to make fun of you but you set yourself up for it. Teeee heeeee

 

[DX Rick]

I like how you claim that whether these people were students or CFIs was irrelevant. I couldn't disagree more. This thread was started for the sole purpose of bagging on Oxford CFIs....many of which happen to have experience twice beyond even your's....no where in the original post does it mention the possibility that these folks were students.
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Why are they sticking around Oxford for so long? Why not make the next step or are the career CFI's?

 

[sqwkvfr]

Why are they sticking around Oxford for so long? Why not make the next step or are the career CFI's?

Many of them are retired RAF or CAA airline pilots with over 30 years of experience. Others tried the regionals or 135 and came back.

The job is actually great. It's salaried and you get paid the same no matter how much you fly or whether your lesson goes forth as planned.

...and starting pay is quite a bit better than FO gigs at regionals...therefore guys with families and commitments find it hard to move to something that's gonna set them back financially and/or force a relocation.

 

[Singlecoil]

Then if is uniform said Oxford on it he is a student pilot? If a student pilot wore a uniform on an airliner to get liquids past security, then the TSA should be called and read the riot act. Either they missed the fact that he didn't have airline ID or they should have been very suspicious and made him change clothes.

 

[The_Russian]

Yeah, sounds like a possible breach in security to me.

 

[WabiSabi]

Regardless, I'm dying to know how it was anyone but your own fault for posting undeserved disparaging comments about Oxford Airline Training Center instructors?

You're being a hothead with a short fuse. Read the original post again. There are disparaging (but, well deserved) comments about a couple of dorks that were identified as instructors from Oxford. Perhaps their apparent positition as Oxford CFI's was pointed out in hopes that these dorks would see them and learn a lesson. However, there are NO disparaging comments about Oxford Airline Training Center instructors. :smash:

I like how you claim that whether these people were students or CFIs was irrelevant. I couldn't disagree more. This thread was started for the sole purpose of bagging on Oxford CFIs....many of which happen to have experience twice beyond even your's....no where in the original post does it mention the possibility that these folks were students.

Well no, this thread was obviously NOT started to bag Oxford CFI's. A bit paranoid aren't we?

Next time you should wait until your emotions subside before making such delusional posts

 

[SSDD]

VFR,

You had me in the begining, the original poster was wrong, and you pointed it out.

Then you've gone into this two page tyrade about getting people fired, changing FBO's, flight experience and dual given...and you lost me.

Give it up before the hole gets any bigger...

 

[TheGuat]

You were obviously mistaken and since you decided that the prudent action to take after your so-called observations was to come to a public message board and shoot your mouth off about it, I'd say that you owe every single Oxford Airline Training Center instructor (most of whom have more dual given than your total time and many with TEN TIMEs that much) an apology.

TOOL!!!