Bullseye! BigMike
That's the way i like it to see us rotorheads! I hate this company forced wearing of bars, fortunately they want it only on a few occasions.
Wearing bars on uncle franks toys is comical. In cases i had to fly a much bigger JAR/FAR 29 twin and my boss or the
PR Manager pressed me in a new shirt with tie and bars i feeled like a bus driver, a bellboy or like one of this gracefully airline captains,fresh out of a slang tanner, assisted by one or two ambitious FO.
NO! I'm proud to be a helicopter pilot and not one of this high altitude, well polished, one way autopiloted "cockpit managers". I like the laxity to be a rotorhead, i like the smell of kerosene, i like the dust from hovering near grounds, i like my proven and scratched leather jacket, i like my cap and i like the feel to go outfitted in this manner through the mass of bars wearing plank drivers, getting ascendent views from this statures and out on the field they stumble looking at my multimillion ship, my maneuvers, and i blow them the airfield dust direct at the well pressed white shirts with bars.
