Removing wings etc.
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Removing wings etc.
Does anyone know why we, as pilots, remove our wings/epauletes (? Stripy things) when we leave work?
As long as I've been flying it's always been etiquette to remove them at the bar or when having a drink but I've noticed recently guys taking them off when they go out to lunch or going into the shops etc.
Does anyone know why? Is it that people might see that we're pilots and may not concentrate on their job?
Just seems weird..
As long as I've been flying it's always been etiquette to remove them at the bar or when having a drink but I've noticed recently guys taking them off when they go out to lunch or going into the shops etc.
Does anyone know why? Is it that people might see that we're pilots and may not concentrate on their job?
Just seems weird..
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Removing wings etc.
Because if you're not working there's no need to be showing off an essentially-meaningless rank slide. I find it vaguely amusing to wear it in the "office" anyway when the guy sitting next to me knows exactly how qualified I am and no one else is going to see us...
I am still laughing at BL's post and wondering how long this thread will go before the lock button.
Same here UL, I clicked on it to learn about removing wings and nope, never owned sliders either.
Same here UL, I clicked on it to learn about removing wings and nope, never owned sliders either.
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Perhaps if more wore their uniform with pride rather than (in my opinion) degrading it, the general respect in the greater population would be higher.
Like it was once many years ago.
To those of us who are in the industry but not airline pilots we can tell…..you are an airline pilot, usually the rest of the briefcase, boots etc give it away. Otherwise you look like a silver service cab driver.
Wear your uniform with pride.
Like it was once many years ago.
To those of us who are in the industry but not airline pilots we can tell…..you are an airline pilot, usually the rest of the briefcase, boots etc give it away. Otherwise you look like a silver service cab driver.
Wear your uniform with pride.
Or a Tosser.
My uniform goes on in full at home before I go to work and stays on until I get home again.
Barring the jacket, if I need to do something on the way to work like fill the car up with fuel or grab the milk on the way home for the wife, why do I need to bother to take everything off? I don't think anyone really cares. I've also worked hard to get where I am and am proud of what I do, so I won't be removing 2 pieces of fabric with some coloured bars on them, because a few people on pprune think it makes you look like a tosser.
As to the original post, good laugh,
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morno
Barring the jacket, if I need to do something on the way to work like fill the car up with fuel or grab the milk on the way home for the wife, why do I need to bother to take everything off? I don't think anyone really cares. I've also worked hard to get where I am and am proud of what I do, so I won't be removing 2 pieces of fabric with some coloured bars on them, because a few people on pprune think it makes you look like a tosser.
As to the original post, good laugh,
.morno
On a visit to the Dentist about 10 years ago the young 'chap' before me was in full uniform. The Dentist later described him as a tosser and said he was on a day off !
I went to and from work five times in the last six days. Five times I parked my car and crossed the road on foot to the coffee shop where the lovely lady knows what I want and gives me my take away coffee. I've been wearing a uniform for over twenty years....there is no way I'm going to waste time taking taking rank slides off then putting them on again. If someone gives a rats then they're the tosser.
