Always gets drunk on overnights.

What has this got to do with protection from the sun? The circumstances of this situation are highly specific - I concede a baseball cap or any headwear with a suitable peak could be useful in this (highly specific) situation.

When it comes to protection from the sun, bear in mind that when the sun is low (near the horizon) it has only a tiny fraction of the destructive power it has when higher up.

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If your profile is to believed, you're arguing from a position of enthusiastic ignorance.

Whilst I hate baseball caps on a personal level, having squinted into the rising,setting and other suns, along with ITCZ, for many many years, I can understand why some pilots choose to use them. The sun streaming through the eyebrow window onto my balding pate, I'm sure does me no good.

Further, have you considered that whilst a baseball cap doesn't protect the ears, as say an Akubra would, it does protect the eyes and bulk of the head?

Actually the harmful UV rays that cause skin cancer and sunburn cannot pass through glass. So the glass cockpit windows in airliners (or glass canopies) naturally protects our skin from the sun. Personally I wear a baseball cap to cut down glare, and because the full fighter helmet is a bit heavy. I can do this because like most airlines in this part of the world, the airline that I work for issued it.

A professional pilot is too lazy to work and too honest to steal.

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A professional pilot is..... NOT someone who would dob in another pilot for wearing a baseball cap! :confused: :yuk:

A professional pilot always shows professional courtesy and airmanship to other pilots even if from companies that dont quite see eye to eye.


Does airmanship even exist anymore????? hard to find if it does.:hmm:

A professional pilot is the one looking up at the sky- be it at a funeral / BBQ / footy / beach / wedding / while driving.....

How many of us have almost had a road prang while watching an aircraft overhead!

A professional pilot is...........
 

...getting cheaper and cheaper these days.



=professional!! :p

Speaking of ball-caps, on the "faggot-maggot" fleet there are a number of drivers who do tend to wear their caps backwards. Apparently it's so that the brim doesn't get in the way..... :yuk: :yuk:

A professional pilot is......
 

a person who people think will be rich and have a hot misses, those two things do not fall into the same category when you fly aeroplanes.

I know plenty of pilots that frequently use the word "scab" and by far they are the most professional, LOYAL, unselfish, dedicated pilots that you can meet. They sacrificed a lot for the good of the company/s only to have it shat back in their face by these "scabs". And you think it is unprofessional if you call someone a scab? In my opnion, scab is letting the :mad:`s off lightly.

:rolleyes: And the countdown begins...one.....two.....:(

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Actually the harmful UV rays that cause skin cancer and sunburn cannot pass through glass. So the glass cockpit windows in airliners (or glass canopies) naturally protects our skin from the sun. Personally I wear a baseball cap to cut down glare, and because the full fighter helmet is a bit heavy. I can do this because like most airlines in this part of the world, the airline that I work for issued it.

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Sorry Psychojoe, that's another myth. Pilots have the highest rate of skin cancers on face and hands of any professional group. This comes from my Dermatologist who is quite senior in his professional group. From personal experience, if I don't wear sunscreen I will burn on any exposed skin whilst in the aircraft.:confused:

Well ballsdeep, I guess if one has got to resort to calling others names, it just proves there's little or no substance to one's argument. :zzz:

here we go.........

A BROFESSIONAL pilot is one who stays out of trouble,by using his/her BROFESSIONAL judgement to avoid situations which might require the use of his/her BROFESSIONAL skills................(rangi mate,grab me another tinnie please,will ya)


notice I used the his/her thing...now thats BROfessional...kapai!!!

Not necessarily, these people have been labelled “scabs” because they have ruined the lives, wellbeing, marriages and families of their fellow pilot. And your telling me there is no substance to that argument?????? You obviously haven’t been affected by these peoples betrayal.

Dinnnnnng!
 

Thanks for playing