Cringe-worthy!
 

Have just heard from a reliable source that a RACWA pilot was seen last night at the Craic in Hillarys wearing the full uniform!! Wanka bars and all. When asked by a mate what he was doing stated that he was a commercial pilot!!

F@rk me!! i thought this was the stuff old wives tales were made of.

Very poor form.:yuk: :yuk: :yuk: :yuk:

Sad
 

Unbelievable...
Can't imagine what his personalised plates say.

Way to go champ :ok:

Isn't drinking in uniform a sackable offence?:E

I thought you had to shout the bar if you had your wanka bars on.

Im sure the ladies would have been lining up to be his wingman.

Was he wearing white pants and singing 'You've lost that loving feeling' ??

What an absolute goose

Hope he reads this forum........ shame, shame, shame :hmm:

Grow up

Probably hums to himself the theme song to the "High and The Mighty" as he flies a 747 on his PC....

BWAhahaha, RACWA strike again.
I know a couple of chaps that went up to the bar at the club one night, with extended epaulettes with about twelve bars painted on ............. had struts and all. Them mob up there weren't to amused apparently. no sense of humor them stiff upper lip two hundred hour fellas. I personaly thought it was one of the funniest things I have ever heard............ you have to know the blokes and the people they were taking the piss out of to really appreciate it. ;) :D

Maybe he thought it was fancy dress night!!!We had a pilot walk into a local pub in uniform,What a W!@##$ker

reminds me of the days at Parafield,A group of new students would go into the pilot shop and emerge as 747 skippers,nice set of shinney wings,epillets,raybans.I used to go week in my knees!!!

I wonder if he was wearing his airside pass!!!

Just goes to show, theres a big difference between brains and common sense.

Gday
Bit of a worry but at least it didn't happened on the east coast.
Cheers Q :ok:

I think I may know who the person in question might be.
And if it is who i think it is, im not one one bit suprised.......

Firstly.. He's not a RACWA instructor, did an Instructor rating with RACWA and is a RACWA wannabe (god knows why). And for all you Jandakot locals, does the number plate :mad: mean anything???

But lets not jump to conclusions.... :O

Ps- only a matter of time before the "Jet Pilot" sticker is on the rear window...

I remember seeing a GA type in the local supermarket once, had all the regalia on, I almost hit the floor laughing.:E

Just checked the log book, 5 years, 2 months, and 14 days since last flight wearing bars. Thank God!!!:ok:

I do love my current uniform!:D

KF

A mate of mine somehow ended up with a box full of bars, so one day apparently with nothing useful to do, he unpicked them off the blue bacground and stitched them on a black long sleved shirt, bars from shoulder to wrist on each arm. lLoked awsome in a nightclub with strobe lights going etc *LOL*

Lets face it, how many of us bother to take our bars/wings off etc. I do mostly, especially in less salubrious suburbs, Bankstown square in particular. But you're hungry, in a hurry, by the time you get parked, etc its easy to forget. Been mistaken for the cleaner, buss driver, taxi driver, security guard etc.

Around an airport I would love a pilots uniform that says, in big bold letters:

I am a pilot, I only know how to fly a plane

No, I dont know where the toilets/arrival/departures area is

No, I cant carry your bags

Do I look like a tour guide

Find the taxi rank yourself

Your losty dog is probably on its way to Reykjavik

Did he also have the "chick magnet" (small round whizz wheel) in his top pocket? :bored:

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Has anyone stopped and thought this guy might just be proud of who/what he is? I for one very often wear my uniform to/from work and into shops etc if the need arises AND I AM FU**ING PROUD OF IT!
Get a life and leave the chap alone (unless of course; he really is a w*nker!):O

Yipyio,

I see from your profile that you're a PPL holder, so i hope it's not a pilot uniform you're wearing down to the shops!

Awaiting incoming. :ouch:

I'm proud of what I do as well, however I don't see the need to advertise it. I wear my uniform whilst driving to and from work only, and will only in public when it's unavoidable.

Spotted a week or so ago at YBCG two young lads with all the regalia on, and one with some very chubby strumpet hanging around. Commented that they seem to be letting children instruct these days as they looked so young...they were children, mid teens and pre GFPT:yuk:

Seems that as soon as they booked for S&L lesson they raced down to the pilot shop and bought all the gear they needed to leave the ground:rolleyes:

One can't even comprehend a lesson without said crap. A last minute slot came up one day and he raced home to get dressed before racing back barely in time:confused:

Now don't get me wrong, I take some pride in my uniform (except I HATE the tie) and appreciate the admiring looks from the chicky babes behind the duty free shop counter in the TERMINAL but once I'm in

1/. my car,
2/. my hotel room

the hat goes on the floor or shoved in the nav bag, and the wings, bars & ID go in the top pocket or the nav bag.

When I was an ab initio student if a student got all dressed up as though he was a QF Long hauller he was rediculed by everyone from the CFI down...and it did happen once or twice.

Chuck.


"...and appreciate the admiring looks from the chicky babes..."

What? Of that face that only a mother could love? :}

Woomera

ALTOCU
 

I AM a private pilot but I work for an organisation that requires all to wear a particular uniform.....and yes, I am proud to wear it whenever I might need to......that includes for television interviews and at various functions were we need to advertise who we are.:D and what we might be about!
If you have a problem with that, then get :mad: !

Yipyio,

Jeez mate, no need to get so upset! I was merely curious as to why a PPL would be wearing wings/bars etc, if in fact that is the uniform you are referring to.

Yours in reasoned debate,

Alto :D

My two cents worth...

Before work the tie and bars remain off, and once in the car after work it's bars and tie off straight away - wings stay on only cause i'm s*it scared of losing the little b*ggers on the underside that keep them on! If I have to stop off somewhere on the way home then the wings are carefully removed!

As for GFPT/PPLs wearing the full get-up - the organisation I trained at made the wearing of "Wings" a very serious thing, and bars weren't of the 'gold' variety but have the company name on them. Wings were only awarded once u had completed CPL, MECIR and ATPL theory, nothing less. Of course they aren't for general wearing, simply a symbol of 3 years of hard work. We were quite dismayed when we found out the place down the road handed them out upon reaching GFPT "status".

The guy in question is no doubt a tosser, and if he thinks it's gonna get him chicks, he's wrong! Telling them he's a dolphin trainer is bound to be much more successful!
:D
TL

TL,

Now i know you're lying....all the woman in the kimberley were very impressed that you were a pilut!

Alto:}

Its quite simple YIPYIO, someone who deliberately wears their pilots unifrom to a nightclub is a ****wit.

Someone who gets around in their pilots uniform while they are shopping or strolling down the main street is also a ****wit

Proud or not, it's no excuse.

Getting around in full regalia highlights serious shortcomings and head up the arse misguided delusions of fantasy.

Yipi,Old mate you are the bloke in question,arnt you!!!!Do you wear your uniform at the bus stop?????I wouldnt even wear my kit when i was doing my IF training,Because i wasnt at work!!!I spose the worst thing about wearing your uniform everywhere is people Probaly think you work for GREYHOUND!!!
A uniform is normally worn by professionals,Mate you arnt there yet,But by the sounds of it your EGO is right on track,Well done.See you up in the territory when you get your CPL.
Happy Flying!!!

Now that is what I and many others would call an intellectual response..... :rolleyes:

You might appear to have a 'thing' for arses by the sound of things P_H_F. Been stuck in your own for too long?

I'm with Sand Dune here....

Big deal if I have to stop at the shop and grab a bottle of milk or loaf of bread something on the way home.

I certainly don't have a 'thing' for wearing it out in public, but if I am either doing something before or after work and I couldn't be stuffed going home just to get changed to go to the shop again, the I'll damned-well wear whatever the hell I want, where I want.

But then again, I very rarely wear the bars when I fly anyway, so what is the point.

I've even read here someone having a go at someone else for wearing all the gear, when I know for a fact the person in question wears faded and torn khaki King Gees for his day to day flying. 'Twas a bit silly to see the lack of comprehension of the tounge in cheek nature of the post, but then again the internet doesn't carry with it the nuances of everyday one on one conversation.

Guys, if someone wants to be different to you, then maybe it isn't him/her with the problem. Maybe some of you should start acting your age instead, and just accept that some are different to you, or at least different things have different meanings to other people.

Tolerance and understanding make the world a nicer place, eh?

;)

Yipyio

I think what people are trying to say are that peoples actions should speak for them - not them for their actions.

The confident pilots I know don't brag/advertise what they do, they simply fly well, display professionalism and good airmanship -and the rest takes care of itself.

Dawnie, you're obviously referring to me there big fella.;)

I'm right behind this misunderstood chap. And if the music at this particular establishment was typically too loud then I would be wearing my Dave Clarks as well!:cool:

Year this is funny but I agree leave the poor guy alone, I am proud of what I do to.
Bloody west australians, I supose they are all ******s over there.

Now now taresa_green,

best not to start picking on the west australians. They have enough of a problem with us people in the "eastern states" (read anything east of the WA border) as it is without giving them anymore of an inferiority complex! :p

Two of us stuck in Maryborough (Vic) for the day once. Went into town and definately took aff all the bars etc. I had a small backpack with me.

Even still, walking into the pub for lunch, passed a bloke muttering "@#$&ing Mormans..". Evidently my backpack was full of bibles. :O

dream on, Towering Q, you know he was talking about me :} ;) Actually, so was Ops normal . ( and my ass does look good in the khaki King gee's) :p

Wiz
 

Yep, I am sure that's what that 30K billy goat reckons too.... :hmm:

onya Stallie, thanx mate, but I'm sure they don't know anything about flying.... :} ;) (but your mum likes me ):D

OPS abnormal, why are you so excited about arses?

What connection arses do have with the subject is that you are one if you get around in bars and wings anywhere outside of an airport.

OK then, so you are telling me i'm a ******** for what exactly? Because in the very next sentence you seem to be agreeing with me.


Fool.

I never called you a ******** P_H_F, that word was and is yours entirely.

I never agreed with you, and if your depth of understanding of very simple language is so small, then I guess the....And the....Went sailing right on over your obtuse narrow-minded little brain. Now what do you have to say about that?

My remark.... ...Still remains to actually be challenged. If you don't like it, then the problem is YOURS, and nobody elses!!!!!

You are getting your all too self important opnion mixed up with what you seem to percieve as reality. If you don't have the intellectual capability to actually mix it in this world then give it a miss, you're out of your depth.

As I said, I very rarely wear the bars, and I have no wings to speak of.

Thrill me. Now bring it on...
Ops.

Woe back!!!OpS,
I wish you did wear or the **** soo on a friday night drink at work i can get a carton out of ya!!!
Drinking Beer at work with eppys and wings=FINE=case of beer!!!!
I dont have a prob with wearing my Blue pants and white shirt at the pub ,but be Farked if ive got frilly gold **** on my shirt.

I LOVVVVE these comments. A real crack up! Me personally.....couldn't give a rats bum what uniform an individual wears or when.
Must admit though, after wearing a uniform in some way shape or form over the years....coudn't have cared less what I looked like when I left the airport. In fact the only time that I took off the glitterey bits ( though after max hours...they weren't glittering no more!) was when after ducking down to the shopping centre to cash the pay check, I realised that I was constantly being asked where are the toliets or where the hell was Best and Less!!!

I'm all for cargo pants, comfortable top, no tie and shoes that don't look like you've worked out of the board room!!

Have to add.... the funniest thing I ever saw was in the late eighties when an individual was spotted at an airport jumping into a tomahawk with a full on helmut and flight suit!!!!. Even funnier was the reaction of the instructor when he got down to the tarmac!!!!!!!!. (the student actually put them on after the briefing outside!!)
Poor little ****** was roared at and made to remove his stuff next to the aircraft and carry it back to the club house!!!!
I'd love to see that again!!
Myself and the mates I was with were rolling around on the grass for 4-5 mins before we could compose ourselves!!!
Now guys....beat that one!

WHOOP WHOOP wind up alert wind up alert WHOOP WHOOP!!!

I dunno about the helmet but Air Force Cadets normally do their flying training in flight suits. Funnily enough, so did the RAAF when they were using CT-4s and I think they still do now during BFS at Tamworth. ;)

One of the good reasons is that it is fire resistant. Our bloke in charge of AAFC flying ops in NSW is a bit of a fan of flying gloves as well for the same reason. I haven't work a flying suit for years (about '97 from memory) but found them comfortable, workable and they had enough pockets to carry EVERYTHING!

Flight Suit & Helmet
 

Sadly, this story is true. It was at YSBK several years after Top Gun came out, and we used to stir the fellow concerned and his mate. We used to call them Tom & Nicole... they were always seen together.

We were all young and dumb once, so please forgive this fellow, as he has grown up and would probably look back at the past and laugh with you about it!