Should airline pilots wear hats?
At LAX last weekend I noticed four pilots heading into the international terminal -- I saw them from the rear, and the only way I knew they were pilots was by their hats. They were wearing short-sleeved shirts and each was dragging a rolling suitcase with his jacket slung over it (it was pretty hot that day) -- and would have looked from the rear like pax had it not been for the hats. I like seeing the pilots -- and uniformed cabin crew -- in the terminal! Don't know how do explain why. Maybe it's because I like to wonder where they've flown in from and where they'll be in 2 days.
There's something uplifting about a group of people arriving in uniform to do their days' work. Makes it seem like they take it really seriously, like they are differentiated from the rest of us because they know more about the matter at hand than we do.
And you men simply look more handsome in the hats!