Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I remember the being picked up on first day of work one, when asked how long you been out? to the look of astonishment... followed by the, It's the shoes"
Ah yes, the shoes. Always a give away with newly arrived F/O's, or at least those that pitched up with a shiny new nav bag rather than a somewhat battered issue version.
Mind you, two memorable new arrivals had also handed in their brains at the same time as their kit.....one proposed to the Capt he would go and supervise the engineers doing a wheel change on a T/R and another asked why a Capt addressed " them " them being his chosen term for engineers, by their first names !
Both were duly "educated " by the respective Capt's involved.