No, I'm a good boy, I read NOTAMS :ok:

Read notams and wear bars ! See a few companies are selling 5 bars
What's 5 for )) astronauts ?

http://www.afeonline.com/shop/images...0eppauette.JPG

Seneca V drivers :)

(Just pulling your leg :ok:)

Pontus very quick of you and love it ;)

Pace

If you need to use them in emergencies only, I guess they are for.....Superman?

I still don't understand, how can you find time to "upgrade" yourself to the 5 bar status in the middle of an emergency.

The 5 bars are excellent if your going for an altitude record and need that extra bit of performance ;)
I also heard that in event of an engine failure wearing them extends the glide but not tested that theory yet
But at least we know they are available online to buy and what a bird puller
The joke of a guy seeing a C 130 landing at an RAF base and turning to the girl exclaimed that the Hercules she was watching was a C130 he ten said He flew a C150 :E
Now when the captain of the Easy Jet flight walks on with 4 bars you can pull your 5 bars out and really impress her ))
Length of bars really does matter )))

It genuinely is crazy that this joke thread has gone to over 15,000

Pace

I've yet to get my PPL, but I am embarking on the journey later this year. Completely see all the points raised here, especially wearing a uniform out in public.

I used to work at Apple many moons ago and we HAD to cover up the t-shirt. At first it was a nuisance as the cloakroom wasn't on the way out for when we were squeezing in a 30 minute lunch break, but I'd always get bugged if I chanced it without my jacket. I always covered up, even if that meant losing 5 minutes of my precious downtime.

Anyway, there is a big part of me that likes the professionalism of a uniform when flying, even in light aircraft. Wearing one adopts an immediate attitude; not an arrogant or egotistical one, but a professional attitude that I feel could be very beneficial to flying. Especially true when flying with passengers, whether they are friends or not.

Of course, this is me outside looking in. I'm not a pilot (yet) and so I completely see why many or, rather, most damn the idea of PPL'ers wearing uniform. I really do. For me, though - and call me crazy! - I'm seeing both sides of the fence.

I kind of agree with a previous poster and wear what you want but if you turn up in a spammy wearing a white shirt and bars at some places, not that Breighton would be one of them of course, don't be surprised if your reception is similar to...

Gold bar discounts
 

I worked for Eastern Airways and we often drove ourselves between airports as you kept the hire car for other trips, we were required to travel in uniform so that you could quickly change plan. Arriving at Aberdeen I then drove to Inverness and stopped at the excellent coffee shop run by a well known soup factory. I bought coffee and a sticky bun for a silly price £1 and found a seat looking out across the fine countryside. A nice lady approached me and asked me to sign their book, not wanting to be difficult I signed but asked why.
"oh we always ask the bus drivers to sign for the concession price"

That made me smile :E Once you take the bars off and end up in a white shirt and black trousers that usually happens ;)

Pace

Didn't know Eastern Airways had any (Air)buses......!!!!!

My CFI from many years ago, thought that one bar should equal fifteen hundred hours. Once you'd 'topped' out at six thousand hours, that was it. That wheeze would exclude most of the 'cinema commissionaires'.

Thing;

A few years ago at Farnborough I'd been to see a new biz jet on behalf of a purchaser, I'd flown in in with our head of training ans he and I were walking through one of the halls in search of lunch when we were saluted by a couple of RAF airmen. I can't blame them, we really did look as bad as some of the latin american admirals around us:E

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I can remember landing at a Military base in Africa and wearing Bars. I was saluted by every military personnel who walked past. It was actually embarrassing and you didn't know what to do back, salute ?

There are places where a uniform and bars are vital wear
In the USA ? Jeans a cheque shirt and cowboy hat will suffice ) and maybe cowboy boots

Pace

Sounds expensive. :)

There's the saying that originated in pastoral circles...
"The bigger the hat, the smaller the property".

Piper L4 Cub, hot summer's afternoon - shorts, T shirt, bare feet! And whole RH side of the aeroplane open of course!

Whoops :E sorry chequered shirt ;)

But different horses for different courses } you don't go to a funeral in day glow yellow suit ? maybe some do ?

Pace

Some years ago I arrived at Beauvais to collect a business client and fly her back to the UK. I was dressed relatively smartly with a white shirt and had the pre-requisite "big-airfield" high-viz tabbard and passes on lanyards and, from the moment I entered the terminal, was accosted by a constant stream of tourists all wanting to know where the bogs were.

Apologies if this has already been posted ...

I think that, if you must wear them, you should do the job properly - these available from afeonline :E
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