The ipod/backpack generation of pilots

[Weasil]

yeah, but do you work for mesa????

No, I don't.

 

[Weasil]

you mean parka?

Yeah i did, I had no idea it was spelled like that, just tooka wild guess. thanks.

 

[CAPTAINDEEZ]

Dude, this has got to be the lamest recurring topic I have ever seen on flightinfo. Every company has a dress of conduct, and if there is no backpack nor media player stipulation in your uniform code, than so what. A pilot is not a military soldier nor an icon, nor a celebrity, but just a driver of an ordinary machine. Sick of seeing this lame azz topic on Ipod and backpack stuff. Someone even made an avatar with that image in mind. If you want to be all cookie cutter and chit than go to japan and wear the gloves, be a cop, or go to Iraq and wear a nice and neatly pressed 100 percent monotonous uniform. Bltching over this is mad homocexual dudes.

 

[QuasarZ]

this is getting beaten to death.. let it go

 

[pdub20s]

Like a guy like you has ever seen big boobs!

and this is coming from a guy who has 2 dudes 69ing in his avatar LOL

 

[Grey Ghost]

and this is coming from a guy who has 2 dudes 69ing in his avatar LOL

Thats funny! Good one!

 

[pdub20s]

Thats funny! Good one!

Cheers! :beer:

 

[Soverytired]

BoobS=Fun Bags=Tatas=Tits

More more more!!!


ps. Who cares about the backpack and ipods! As long as I can stand to spend a 12hr day in the cockpit with the dude/chick, I could give a shi$ less what he likes to carrier around him....

Sweater puppets!


(P.S. I'd like to know the the flightinfo TOOL was who sent a note to our chief pilot complaining about i-pods/backpacks on "their" pilots. Yeah, like passengers give a rats about what the pilots of their "little airplane" wear)

 

[suupah]

wy tha hel kant eniwon spel on this frikin sighte?

 

[LearLove]

heres another thought on the subject:

Being based in DCA and having a crashpad in Crystal City a few blocks from the Pentagon I see many many mil service people all the time, enlisted thru col, even a general walking about now and then. Many of these guys/women have a backpack and ipod or cell phone as they make thier way about in uniform. It dosen't make me think any less of them.

 

[CoATP]

I cant speak for anyone but myself, but to me the pilots being complained about are the ones that "know it all". You know the ones that went to the academy and bought into the notion that they are Yeager, linberg, and hoover all rolled into one.

I used Google and this guy was the one that flew over the alantic ocean.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

heres another thought on the subject:

Being based in DCA and having a crashpad in Crystal City a few blocks from the Pentagon I see many many mil service people all the time, enlisted thru col, even a general walking about now and then. Many of these guys/women have a backpack and ipod or cell phone as they make thier way about in uniform. It dosen't make me think any less of them.

We are not military men or officers.

Soliders wear backpacks.

If soliders are kicking ass they can listen to what they want...

If a sharp pilot image with hat is good enough to picket then it is good enough for everyday. Everyday is good enough to promote better pay and work rules...

 

[jeroom]

Just bring the bOObs!

 

[Sioux115]

Hats, blazer, looking professional=hot chicks wiith big BOOBS. Ipods, back packs and hair gel=slump busters.

 

[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!

 

[AvroGuy]

The hat is a holdover from years past. The backpack in the military, not the rucksack, is realatively new also. Every profession must addapt and evolve. Uniforms change, society changes, people perception of professional change. I personally don't wear a hat unless it is cold outside and I need to keep my brain bucket warm. Not required at my company, if it was required I would wear one.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The hat is a holdover from years past. The backpack in the military, not the rucksack, is realatively new also. Every profession must addapt and evolve. Uniforms change, society changes, people perception of professional change. I personally don't wear a hat unless it is cold outside and I need to keep my brain bucket warm. Not required at my company, if it was required I would wear one.

Not sure if this is a professional reason not to wear the hat.

I've yet to read a logical arguement that the hat has a negative effect on the profession. It maybe disliked by todays version of the airline pilot, but what a professional thinks about himself and what thier revenue thinks is two different things.

Fact is....still today... whenever any organization wants to use the image of an Air Line Pilot...that hat is used.....

 

[AvroGuy]

Rez, I wonder when the profession got rid of the silk scarf and goggles how many of the "ol' timers" griped about the new generation of pilots who don't wear the scarf and took on wearing hats.

I think you are right about the public perception and the hat. That may change though. Look at the perception about CEO's. Majority of people would think of a man in a nice suite. Reality has changed, Some CEO's come to work in blue jeans and collard shirts. Now do they get C r a p from thier fellow CEOs or do they just go about thier business?

 

[xjhawk]

do you suppose years ago the old guys complained about the new guys with their cell phones and laptop cases? With time, things change. But one thing that should not change is our professionalism. I do suppose that some could argue that the type of music player you listen to or the type of laptop bag you find comfortable or easy to drag around can lead to some bad behavior.......give it a shot buddy. I will define professionalism for some at the airlines

70's style mustash
balding hair with a bus cap to cover it up
a polyester suitcoat
with matching cheap cold and hardly waterproof overcoat
no computer case in the shape of a backpack
no Ipod or similar device
can anyone add anymore.

When a professional is on break in the city, or out for a walk, I am sure they can have a i pod and still be professional........

 

[PCL_128]

When a professional is on break in the city, or out for a walk, I am sure they can have a i pod and still be professional........

Sorry, not comparable. The terminal is our place of work. The city street is not a lawyer's/broker's/doctor's/etc... place of work. When you walk through the terminal, your customers are seeing you. The professional walking in the park just looks like any other joe. When you're in uniform in the terminal, you need to look the part.