Latest Flight International has article by aviation journalist on his impressions of flying in an Air Atlantic Classic Flight DC3. The Head of Training a lady pilot with 2000 hours plus on Daks flew the plane. Accompanying photo reveals a four bar chappie or chapess in the left seat and a three bar someone in the RH seat. The journalist comments somewhat pointedly that most of the white lettering around the rows of identical switches had been worn off.
I don't mind a bit of class but wearing four bar eppaulletes just to fly a battered old Dakota with a beaten up cockpit is a bit too much like ******** to me. That said, the article reveals the operator has even copied Boeing technology by designating the flap positions as 1,2 3 etc when the original design flap position indicator was up, one quarter, half, three quarters and down. Its called pretentiousness in my book.
