Pilots and Backpacks

[LearLove]

as the lowest paid major airline pilot I can't afford a backpack or roller bag so I just drag my stuff around in a plastic trash bag from the galley.

 

[JumpersAway]

...................................It's a satchel, and Indiana Jones wears one.

 

[wmuflyguy]

Keep yourself well-groomed, iron your uniform, act appropriately in public places and people will not give a rats a$$ if you have a backpack on. Showing up reeking of booze, being rude, looking like a slob is what people notice...not how you carry your own personal belongings.

Also, button the top button of your shirt and looks like hell to have your tie holding together the collar of your shirt.

 

[zonejumper]

Here's my meaning of the height of hypocrisy. The same clowns who HATE the hat are the same ones who wear a baseball cap 24/7. Ugh...... Nothing like looking like a teenage boy for the rest of your life....

 

[100-1/2]

I stuff my XXL Body into XL Polyester pants and Shirts with a Medium-sized wifebeater underneath and go Oh-Naturale down below. I swap out the hard-soles for Birkenstocks at EVERY opportunity and carry EVERYTHING I need in a Black Pleather Fanny-Pack which carries my Skoal, toothbrush, comb, Iphone, charger and wallet. Everything ELSE I need is at the Hotel Front Desk (Razor, toothpaste, shaving cream and deodorant) if not in the rooms.

NOBODY has every commented:

1. About My Extra-Long 'Starsky' Sideburns
2. Terrible Combover (or Wearing my hat on planes, trains or in automobiles)
3. Wearing Birnenstocks
4. When my pant cuffs rise showing my hairy shins while sitting
5. When I lose a button and belly hair breaches my under shirt
6. When I must adjust my boys on the crew bus because they are indecisive which side of the inner hem to ride
7. Most of all: never complained about how my fanny pack zippers rattle like a cow-bell while I walk

100-1/2

 

[wmuflyguy]

:laugh: Bravo

 

[405]

Who gives a sh*t?

After being in this rewarding industry for 11 years, I have never had anyone outside aviation ask me "why do so many pilots carry backpacks?" No one really cares except other pilots.

 

[Bluestreak]

I stuff my XXL Body into XL Polyester pants and Shirts with a Medium-sized wifebeater underneath and go Oh-Naturale down below. I swap out the hard-soles for Birkenstocks at EVERY opportunity and carry EVERYTHING I need in a Black Pleather Fanny-Pack which carries my Skoal, toothbrush, comb, Iphone, charger and wallet. Everything ELSE I need is at the Hotel Front Desk (Razor, toothpaste, shaving cream and deodorant) if not in the rooms.

NOBODY has every commented:

1. About My Extra-Long 'Starsky' Sideburns
2. Terrible Combover (or Wearing my hat on planes, trains or in automobiles)
3. Wearing Birnenstocks
4. When my pant cuffs rise showing my hairy shins while sitting
5. When I lose a button and belly hair breaches my under shirt
6. When I must adjust my boys on the crew bus because they are indecisive which side of the inner hem to ride
7. Most of all: never complained about how my fanny pack zippers rattle like a cow-bell while I walk

100-1/2

Wow ! You TOO ? I always tuck my wife-beater into my jammie bottoms before going to the hotel breakfast bar and make sure to clean my Crocs with an alcohol wipe.I prefer Sketchers in uniform.If you try to shave with one of those chinese hotel razors,you're just askin' for it.Do you rock the Wal-Mart socks you buy in a bundle as well ?

 

[ASA_Aviator]

Roll-aboards. Get it? It rolls...aboard the plane.


You guys kill me with the word rollerboard. WTF is a rollerboard?

 

[Bluestreak]

Roll-aboards. Get it? It rolls...aboard the plane.


You guys kill me with the word rollerboard. WTF is a rollerboard?

Noone knows.

 

[manfred33]

who gives a sh*t?

After being in this rewarding industry for 11 years, i have never had anyone outside aviation ask me "why do so many pilots carry backpacks?" no one really cares except other pilots.

exactly!!!

 

[Freebrd]

6. When I must adjust my boys on the crew bus because they are indecisive which side of the inner hem to ride

:laugh::laugh::laugh: most excellent! me have same problem, well done!
next time on the bus do it in front of a new hire FA (adjust the boys that is)

 

[Clutch]

:laugh::laugh::laugh: most excellent! me have same problem, well done!
next time on the bus do it in front of a new hire FA (adjust the boys that is)

You're hilarious

 

[DYLIN]

Backpack? No problem.

Wearing the backpack on top of the pilot uniform? Horrible.

I don't think anyone has a problem with anyone bringing it on the luggage though.

 

[No.W.]

"Horrible"

I love hyperbole.

25 people die in a tornado...and we say "horrible"

Some pilot wears his backpack over his shoulder and we say "horrible"

Lol.

 

[chqflyer]

Roll-aboards. Get it? It rolls...aboard the plane.


You guys kill me with the word rollerboard. WTF is a rollerboard?

Maybe it's a mobile waterboarding device?

 

[CesnaCaptn]

Roll-aboards. Get it? It rolls...aboard the plane.


You guys kill me with the word rollerboard. WTF is a rollerboard?

Try googling "rollerboard." The words are used interchangeably.

 

[say again]

Here's my meaning of the height of hypocrisy. The same clowns who HATE the hat are the same ones who wear a baseball cap 24/7. Ugh...... Nothing like looking like a teenage boy for the rest of your life....

Sh!tty comparison, pal. Not in the same league.

 

[CA1900]

Try googling "rollerboard." The words are used interchangeably.

Millions of people say "nookyaler," too -- that doesn't make it correct.

 

[No.W.]

This is my new favorite thread on the interweb...I mean internet.

 

[CX880]

I'm surprised not many people bling out their roller boards. I'm not sure if the blue flashing wheels count.

 

[zonejumper]

Sh!tty comparison, pal. Not in the same league.

I believe I'm entitled to MY opinion, pal.....

 

[say again]

I believe I'm entitled to MY opinion, pal.....

Awww, did I hurt your feelings?:bawling: Where did I say you weren't entitled? Sh!tty comparison was all that was said. BTW- I'm entitled to MY opinion as well, live with it. :beer:

 

[centralpilot]

Try googling "rollerboard." The words are used interchangeably.

Google:

Rollaboard = 377,000 hits
Roller board = 80,900 hits, including the following at number 1:

http://www.nordicskiracer.com/Training/rollerboard.asp


"Rollaboard" FTW.

 

[JoeMerchant]

I like taking my rollerboard and backpack with my Ipod and hair gel and getting on my SJ....Then I like getting on FI and bitching about it...

 

[centralpilot]

I like taking my rollaboard and backpack with my iPod and hair gel and getting on my SJ....Then I like getting on FI and bitching about it...

I fixed that for you.

 

[zonejumper]

Awww, did I hurt your feelings?:bawling: Where did I say you weren't entitled? Sh!tty comparison was all that was said. BTW- I'm entitled to MY opinion as well, live with it. :beer:

Geez, looks like someone hasn't gotten laid in a while. imp:

 

[Hamburger]

Every Old School guy from 1967] Sure it might be convenient to roll one around. But it's also a lot more comfortable and convenient to wear sneakers. But you'll look like a pu$$y. At some point you've got to grow up and leave the wheels at home........Look completely stupid and unprofessional....

Every single one of you that has sissy wheels on your luggage needs to STFU immediately and start to carry your suitcase like a MAN.

Don't tell me you use an AutoPilot. That will get you beat within an inch of your sissy life.

 

[Hamburger]

.....................

 

[Fubijaakr]

You mean my flashing wheels aren't cool? Dang it!