Yardie, unfortunately, there is no 'ceremony' afforded to becoming a 'fully fledged' QF driver. You turn up at uniforms, they issue you with everything (including your wings) and you wear them on your observation flights in the middle of PUIT training and again on your line training.
We've even gone to the stage whereby PUITs are no longer issued with rank slides with only one gold bar. Both rank slides and jacket come with two gold bars now for PUITs. I guess this saved them about $25 a piece for the rank slides and the cost of tailoring the extra gold bar on the jacket after one trip.
It is a bit dissappointing from the ceremonial point of view but if you keep your eye on the overall game of making money for the airline then it starts to make a bit more sense. Still, get rid of all traditions and you end up without a 'soul' to your airline. Read into that what you will!
