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Suitable Attire?

Old 17th Oct 2009, 22:43
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Suitable Attire?

Do freight dogs have to wear the same Uniform as Passenger Carrying Pilots? Such as Hat, White Shirt, Trousers etc, Or is it more casual?
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Old 18th Oct 2009, 01:57
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Trousers....
Usually, however I've known a few to ahhhh...leave these off occasionally.
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Old 18th Oct 2009, 03:13
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From home or the hotel to doors closed the same as pax pilots. From doors closed to doors open just about anything that is comfortable, shorts, T shirt, track suit etc. etc.
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Old 18th Oct 2009, 04:47
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One company I flew for kept one away from home for 18-20 days at a time living out of a rollaboard. Not being particularly accurately scheduled it was a bad idea to hand a uniform over to the hotel laundry to clean and press as they aren't open at 0200 when we tended to get the phone call to man up. There are pilot uniforms in laundries all over the planet gathering dust from freight crews that took the risk and never were able to pick them up.

We wore standard airline uniforms until the last hatch closed and the agent waved us off. Then rapidly switched over to whatever was easy to wear and maintain long term.

A 747 cockpit full of kimonos or track suits wasn't an unusual sight.

Best to switch over before top of descent though. More than one agent has been surprised by a crew that got too busy to change into uniform.
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Old 20th Oct 2009, 22:43
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Thanks for the answers!
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Old 20th Oct 2009, 23:15
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Correct Attire

....what you mean to tell me that a wide bodied jet can still fly safely without the crew wearing a freshly pressed uniform, white shirt, tie and a hat....preposterous !!!!?

I have even flown an "icelandic" registered 747F in bermuda shorts and smoked a large cuban (cigar...before the jokes start flying!) in the cockpit after my crew meal.....we still landed safely....truly amazing....
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truly amazing....
Yup, works good.
I also bring along cigars for all FD crew...sometimes we can't see out...just as well.
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Old 22nd Oct 2009, 18:44
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Flown in shorts and flip flops many times
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Old 23rd Feb 2010, 14:20
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Sounds good to me! Know which kind of job I'm heading for when it's time for a change!
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Old 23rd Feb 2010, 14:51
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Devil Men in Black

hmmm guess that tank top and those daisy dukes that hubby had in his flight bag really did belong to him afterall
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Know which kind of job I'm heading for when it's time for a change!
For most time for a change came some years ago after being fed up with Crew and pax being harassed at security checkpoints and the introduction of ever more passenger rights bills. Oh, and when the cabin crew wasn't worth looking at anymore.
I have sometimes Alpacas looking better than most AA crew!
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A Nice grey summer t-shirt on a Brazilian Cargo 10...everything very informal..

YouTube - Uma Tarde no DC-10
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Old 23rd Feb 2010, 22:07
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Usually, however I've known a few to ahhhh...leave these off occasionally

Especially after falling asleep the day before at the local nudist beach. As a young chap I can recall the commander supervising the next day's flights standing at the back of the cockpit .. no way could he bear sitting in the seat. However, the other two demonstated that crew numbers, in the absence of emergency, are optional.
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And, what do you guys wear on Halloween?
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.. a pilot's uniform of course!
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One company I flew for kept one away from home for 18-20 days at a time living out of a rollaboard. Not being particularly accurately scheduled it was a bad idea to hand a uniform over to the hotel laundry to clean and press as they aren't open at 0200 when we tended to get the phone call to man up. There are pilot uniforms in laundries all over the planet gathering dust from freight crews that took the risk and never were able to pick them up.
I used to carry a small bottle of laundry detergent. Wash 3 or 4 days of underware in the sink and dry them with the iron just to stretch the time out until I had enough ground time to launder everything.
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In the final nine years of my flying career, relegated to freighters, I used to carry a short handled plumbers suction cup in my kit. Worked a treat in laundering knickers, socks and shirts in the hotel bathroom sink with a bit of detergent thrown in; as good as a washing machine.
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..........I used to carry a short handled plumbers suction cup in my kit......

Dont let the good folk employed by the TSA find you carrying on of these
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Old 26th Feb 2010, 14:06
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Always took my pajamas and a hammock.
Never bothered with rings on the pajamas.
They can be a bit itchy.
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Old 26th Feb 2010, 16:20
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Don't forget the black bin liners to be donned at TOD in preparation for the 'brown rain' on descent when carrying livestock ! AAH Happy days.
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