epaulettes - just wondering!
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Loadmasters & Flight Mechs usually wear 2 stripes.
I knew a ground ops guy in DXB who was runnin around the place wearing 4 stripes; couldn't help asking the pratt wtf he was up to. Well, he was working ground dispatch (stapling flight plan together, calling crew out etc...) and acting as loadmaster (actually added a fuel figure to a transit loadsheet) so he was working two jobs @ two stripes each. He was serious about it too.
I knew a ground ops guy in DXB who was runnin around the place wearing 4 stripes; couldn't help asking the pratt wtf he was up to. Well, he was working ground dispatch (stapling flight plan together, calling crew out etc...) and acting as loadmaster (actually added a fuel figure to a transit loadsheet) so he was working two jobs @ two stripes each. He was serious about it too.
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PPLs don't wear uniform, so stripes don't apply. Those (thankfully few) who do affect to wear them make themselves look delusional sad prats.
You'd ridicule a yachtsman who sported gold rings on his sleeve, wouldn't you?
A professional pilot who wears them on his raincoat looks a pompous image-obsessed arse coming the big "I am!"
You'd ridicule a yachtsman who sported gold rings on his sleeve, wouldn't you?
A professional pilot who wears them on his raincoat looks a pompous image-obsessed arse coming the big "I am!"
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Yachtsman with bars... not seen that (thank goodness) but seen plenty of smoke boat weekend skippers with poncy peak caps with seagull poo... 
So I guess yachtsman are modular and smoke boat drivers are integrated
(If the FTO's offered a ppls, they’d make you wear a uniform)
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So I guess yachtsman are modular and smoke boat drivers are integrated
(If the FTO's offered a ppls, they’d make you wear a uniform)iX
I came across with a retired check and training captain now a senior instructor for a flying school who used to fly for an airline that has a large "rat" on it's tail. He still wears four stripes and a STAR on his epulette.
Beat that!
Beat that!
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sic transit gloria mundi.
Atlas, That's what you can CALL epaulettes! Superjob!!!!!!
We did quite a few MOD flights in the early '90's, and I used
to HATE any of the Air Force types addressing me as "SIR".
Just because we HAD to wear stripes and all that crap.
Told a few of them that I'd fill them in if they kept on doing it!
Word got round, and it reverted to "Mate" thank goodness!
We did quite a few MOD flights in the early '90's, and I used
to HATE any of the Air Force types addressing me as "SIR".
Just because we HAD to wear stripes and all that crap.
Told a few of them that I'd fill them in if they kept on doing it!
Word got round, and it reverted to "Mate" thank goodness!
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I worked for a flighschool in Florida.
The head of student recrutement (a PPL), used to wear 4 stripes.
At one day all of us CFIs showed up with 7 stripes, he didn't think that was funny....but he also didn't show up with stripes anymore ;-)
The head of student recrutement (a PPL), used to wear 4 stripes.
At one day all of us CFIs showed up with 7 stripes, he didn't think that was funny....but he also didn't show up with stripes anymore ;-)
