Uniforms

[Falconjet]

No, the FAA hasn't made clipons mandatory, although they are certainly a good idea. I would much prefer no tie what so ever. You could look just as professional in a nice polo shirt if you ask me.

FJ

 

[TexaSWA]

Clip-on ties go great with highwaters.

 

[potrack]

yeah, issue the same guys pocket-protectors

 

[CatYaaak]

Are some of you guys serious?..that you didn't know that clip-ons were invented for, and worn by cops, etc. etc, for the purpose of avoiding being strangled? If someone grabs ahold of your regular tie with intent to do bodily harm, you're screwed. And are you saying that, even after 9/11, you still wear those pre-fabricated nooses around your necks because you think they might be "geeky"? Jeez...grow up. It's much "geekier" if one guy reaches in and drags your helpless choking butts out of the cockpit because you conveniently gave him a windsor-knotted weapon he can use against you. At that moment, I'm sure the passengers (you know, the ones who entrust you with their lives) will appreciate that you've subordinated the "minimizing risk" ethos they assume we as professionals operate under to your sense of perceived style regarding neckwear .

It amazes me that in spite of fairly recent events, some people just still can't wrap their head around the fact there are those that are still trying to figure out ways to kill them, precisely because they are the pilots, in order to kill an airplane. They'll do it with improvised weapons if need be. Don't hand it to them.

 

[ivauir]

I actually saw a guy step out of the nastiest looking aircraft I've ever seen, I think it was a Casa, AKA a wannabe Shorts 360, and the dude was wearing a flight suit.


Are Casa's prone to bursting in flames or are they pulling a lot of G's?

Flight suits for airlines? Dude, put the crack pipe away.

Casa's are as a general rule dirty nasty POS's that may indeed burst into flames at any moment. They also land in the mud. A flight suit would be my first choice (I didn't get a vote and I wore a flight suit). BTW with the exception of VIP aircraft all AF heavy drivers wear flight suits (even the tanker toads and strat air wiennies who go no where near the mud). A flight suit is a utility garment that is practical for almost any kind of flying. If you wash 'em enough times they even get as comfortable as your jamies (although they lose their fire retardent abilities when you do this)

I do think flight suits are a bad idea for the airlines because they invoke one of two two images: Maverick, and the guy who just changed the oil in my wife's minivan. The older and fatter I get the more I suspect I'd be mistaken for the Jiffy Lube guy, and I've never been mistaken for Tom Cruise. Stop lauging, I've seen what you flight info folks look like and you're all safe from the paparazzi too. Those beer guts and pear shaped bodies don't do well in the old flight "bag". Just don't go there.

 

[CatYaaak]

Stop lauging, I've seen what you flight info folks look like and you're all safe from the paparazzi too. Those beer guts and pear shaped bodies don't do well in the old flight "bag". Just don't go there.

I've noticed that even lots of the young ones are sportin' big 'ole paunches now. Is "Box of Krispy Kremes.....Onboard" part of the Close Out checklist these days, or what?

 

[jobear]

I'M NOT FAT, I'm just big boned! (Kartmen-esque voice)

I'm to fat and lazy to worry about looking "the part" and besides I don't wan't to freeze in the cold MKE winters

Jobear