Uniforms

[Quack]

Yeah I love my uniform so much that I wear it around town, to the bar, buying groceries with my food stamps, to the beach, and numerous other places. In fact yesterday I picked up 3 women while in uniform...grant it they were a good duece, duece and half and were missing teeth, but hey, all I can get! Your an absolute idiot if you look forward to putting on your stupid penguin suit everyday.

 

[pilotmyf]

I like uniforms. I wish my local flight school had them. They just look cool. I mean what pilot does not get excited the first time he puts that uniform? I mean it is almost like the first time one takes control of an airplane. I cannot wait to wear a uniform. Did anyone get excited the first time they put on a uniform? Maybe I am just wierd?

You are a Fu#cking Idiot!!!!

 

[avl_pilot]

Yeah I love my uniform so much that I wear it around town, to the bar, buying groceries with my food stamps, to the beach, and numerous other places.

We've got a guy here that does do that. If you go out to lunch w/him it can be freezing cold and he will find a way to take off his jacket and show off his 4 strips and start up a conversation w/the waitress about how he flys airplanes for a living(which are 172's ). Oh, to be that shallow and feel you need to show off EVERY time you go out of the office.uke:

 

[Airline Driver]

15 years ago when I was doing the flight instructing waiting around the airport 24/7 game. A 152 lands at my airport and a guy gets out of the plane walks up to the FBO wanting his logbook signed. He was on his long X-Country for his private licence...

He was wearing the Captains hat, epaulets, jacket, boots, leather flight bag, the whole shebang!!! Ya' really got to wonder sometimes.

Personally, I think flight schools that make their students & or instructors wear pilot uniforms is a bit overboard!! Chinos and a nice golf shirt is more than acceptable.

 

[GogglesPisano]

15 years ago when I was doing the flight instructing waiting around the airport 24/7 game. A 152 lands at my airport and a guy gets out of the plane walks up to the FBO wanting his logbook signed. He was on his long X-Country for his private licence...

He was wearing the Captains hat, epaulets, jacket, boots, leather flight bag, the whole shebang!!! Ya' really got to wonder sometimes.

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Come on now. You're making this up.

I've heard of guys going overboard with Dungeons and Dragons stuff, but student pilots in uniforms?

 

[Airline Driver]

Come on now. You're making this up.

I've heard of guys going overboard with Dungeons and Dragons stuff, but student pilots in uniforms?

I am not making this up.... I only saw this once.. Back in the Summer of 94 to be exact. That is what kind of an impression this guy made on me. I asked him why he was wearing an airline captains uniform while flying as a student pilot. He said that his instructor told him to look & dress like a professional pilot.. People would then take him more seriously. He certainly took this to the extreme to say the least.

He was a foreigner and probably didn't know any better. I believe he was from Japan..He spoke English well enough to get buy.. NO THIS IS NOT A SLAM ON THE JAPANESE!!! I did tell him that he did not have to wear an airline pilots uniform while learning to fly.

Made me laugh though...

Trust me this is a true story!!!!!

 

[pilotpat]

I personally get a kick out of the guys striding out to their trusty 152's wearing their multi-patched WWII bomber jackets and flight suits, a la the CAP guys....sometimes you gotta wonder!

Oh...and Nomex gloves to boot...

 

[Ralgha]

I personally get a kick out of the guys striding out to their trusty 152's wearing their multi-patched WWII bomber jackets and flight suits, a la the CAP guys....sometimes you gotta wonder!

Oh...and Nomex gloves to boot...

The flight suits are a CAP requirement. If you're not in a flight suit, you don't get in the airplane. A lot of them are ex-military and probably got the jacket there. As for the gloves, what's the problem with a little extra fire protection?

Un-freaking believeable. You guys want pilots to stand together to get better pay/workrules/etc. and then you turn around and make fun of anyone who doesn't fit your idea of how all pilots should act. Screw off.

 

[cosmotheassman]

If you're one of those guys that likes to walk through the airport with your uniform on, you're an idiot. There's a person at Flexjet that wears it on the flight home just so he can "look cool". Give me a break. I hate wearing that stupid looking outfit.

 

[capt. megadeth]

"If you're one of those guys that likes to walk through the airport with your uniform on, you're an idiot" I like to wear mine on the other side of the airport on the cargo ramp where there are no passengers. " "There's a person at Flexjet that wears it on the flight home just so he can look cool. Give me a break" Maybe the dude doesn't feel like taking it off.....who cares? It is easier to deal with when jumpseating and going through security. I don't know about the guys, but being female everyone looks at me like I have 3 heads when I go up to the gate and ask for a jumpseat. Apparently everyone thinks UPS has Flight Attendants. I just get less grief when I wear the uniform. "I hate wearing that stupid looking outfit." Christ Almighty, if you want to wear bermuda shorts to work....get a job flying some twin piston in the Carribean.....what do you expect to wear? I think pilot uniforms look nice.On a side note, I think the thread started as flame bait and most of you took it.....hook line and sinker</p>