Light blue uniforms?!

[MystiCKal]

I heard that students at DCA (Comair) wear light blue shirts with black trousers... Why in the world do they have blue shirts?!? When everyone else have white shirts with black pants and tie? I find that quite strange...

[Capt. J]

Every company can choose what they want their uniform as. White shirt and trousers are just a traditional way which most airlines have adapted to. However, airlines can choose to make their pilots wear whatever they want. I think there's an airline which pilots who work there wear a brown shirt? Instead of white

You might have also noticed some airline's epaulettes are in silver bars whereas most airline's are in gold/yellow.

An airline may choose to design any uniform they want their pilots to wear. Sorry if I've answered your question incorrectly, I stand corrected in the info I've posted.

Capt. J (Still a newbie :\ )

[411A]

Well, lets see...airlines that have used light blue shirts in the past include United, Flying Tigers, Braniff...and for light brown shirts, one that comes to mind is Western.
Different strokes for different folks.

[Notso Fantastic]

Don't even look at Easyjet..........(orange shirts!)

[Aussie]

I think youll find Regional Express pilots also wear blue shirts, doesnt really look great though.

Aussie

[Engine overtemp]

Don't even look at Easyjet..........(orange shirts!)

Only for cabin crew!

[Basil]

And, in the eighties, Gulf Air had a green uniform with cream shirts.
Nice touch was the summer shirt, designed to be worn without a tie - excellent for the high temps.

[Boeing 7E7]

Does it really matter? Anyone would think you guys didn't get out much!

[Captain Airclues]

Boeing 7E7

Get out? Why would we want to go out when we can stay in and PPRuNe?

Airclues

[Capt. J]

And I wonder what Boeing 7E7 is doing here himself. Wouldn't he himself be going 'out' like he told us to? ;)

Cheers

[JamesT73J]

I really like the tradition of the white shirt & black tie, but I have on occasion wondered about practical aspects. I understand sometimes the crews may have to 'get their hands dirty' operating in some areas, or even in day-to-day operations like walkarounds in poor weather etc.

I wondered if a lightweight navy-blue shirt would be more popular, with lighweight cargo trousers and comfortable boots/shoes, similar to how some armed forces would dress.

I don't suppose that would help you lot pull the birds as well though :E

[SkySista]

Skywest ( the Aus one) I believe also have blue shirts but with navy pants, and Virgin have white shirts with camel brown pants if I remember rightly.

And that green/cream combo probably looked a lot better than it sounds...

actually, there's that website for the CC uniforms... uniformfreak.com or similar... now there's some uniforms on there that'll really make you :yuk:

Sky

[BigHairyBum]

Used to wear a blue shirt to work. It made a lot of us feel like postmen!

Wearing a white one now. Most pilots seem to prefer the traditional white shirt.

[Atlanta-Driver]

Wearing the blue shirt made a world of difference when flying night freight on a Metro. Loading an unloading was done by "Pilotpower". Dirt seemd to show much less on a blue shirt and one could wear it a bit longer than white shirt would have allowed.

Many schools in US had blue shirts, and apparently still have. Some schools force students to wear epaulettes/stripes anf if I remember correctly Sierra Academy had burgundy coloured stripes:yuk:

I'd be much happier flying in T-shirt and Shorts, but a uniform makes life a lot easier, on most occasions, when going through security, immigration (USA excluded) customs etc.

AD

[Capt L]

From a practical point of view, doing what I do a blue shirt makes a lot of sense. It gets dirty enough, so god only knows what a white one would look like at the end of the day. Don't have to wear a tie though (phew)!!

But I will admit what I do is a lot different from airline flying!!

[MystiCKal]

I hope I'll be wearing the traditional styled uniform when I do my pilot training in Florida :D

*I'll get all the girls' attention*

[Capt. J]

I'd fly in any uniform as long as I'm flying ;)

*I'll get all the girls' attention*

Ahem. Are you sure?? :}

[Slim20]

Oh I hoped this thread was about Thunderbirds.

PS. The Tracy boys never had time for girls, huh? (Except Alan, who was obviously giving puppet love to Tintin on a regular basis)

[Earthmover]

JamesT73J, MystiCKal ... I have sad news for you - you can wear a gold shirt with blue rings if it takes your fancy, but it ain't going to get you a stewardess .... they go for FIREFIGHTERS!