Surely the Walt rules apply?

If it gets you a leg over (or in ShyT's case a beer), then it is ok?

.....One of the guys had a set of epaulettes made with 6 bars just for sh1ts and giggles and people were falling over themselves to serve this new super pilot.


Mmmmm .....


Note to self ...... "Must try this one on my next trip to India!"



:E

Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he just uses auto pilot when he knows he shouldn't.

Mechanics and Engineers are two very different things.

On ships, you generally have Engineers and Motormen, the Engineers are so as they have a qualification to say so.

Offshore on installations and what not, there are Mechanics who are precisely that, infact that tag is above some, so they would not go near the Engineer tag.

I've sailed with Captains who will not allow you to refer to them as so and on the flip side sailed with others who will only be refered to as Captain.

Overall the ones who desire to be called Captains are not likeable people.

@spinwing

Too late...:p

In a past life, I spent some time in the army with a guy called 'Major' (his Christian name), whose rank was Captain...

So he was 'Captain Major L.......'..

hehe

... Larowe!

Crikey, no names no pack drill....but yes...that was the man!

Flying Lawyer.

Sorry your Honour, you are incorrect.

He is a Jerk!

Oh buggar, do you mean to say my wife is right not to polish my shoes when I leave them outside the bedroom door!

Capt Tuck

Ferry flights through Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Papua New Guinea - you should at least wear an iorned preferably white shirt & some crunchie bars if you have them. Indonesian's get very suss on you if you climb out of the steerers seat & don't 'look the part'.
Quite often travel agents in PNG will prefix a booking with Captain if the client happens to be an aviator & it may have something to do with the passenger list provided to the crew. I have seen hostie's walk up to a seat & ask the Doctor sitting there to come take a look at a crook geezer - how did they know that person was a medico?

Davey Croppet/PHP/HR Greenie/baldebanger
 

It's interesting to note that none of the above have contributed to this thread since Heliports remark.
But it looks like there coule be another "low posts" person in the same list? He certainly has a thing about people who prefer to be called Captain.
I don't mind what people call me, provided they pay me enough! :cool:

I agree with DB, although this is a slightly pointless debate! I hold a PPL and fly R22s and R44s, and wouldn't dream of calling myself Captain in a serious manner. However, my friends (who endured my endless tales of flying while learning, and continue to do so), find it funny to call me Captain, or CaptainCraigos - because I am the only person they know who can fly. It does no harm and has sort of stuck as a nick name.

However, I whole heartedly agree with DB, and FL's sentiment that those who are flying professionally are entitled to use the title and I think should do so. They should also be appropriately turned out, call me a stickler; I think it was all those detentions at school for having odd socks on that did it!!

We have all achieved something of which to be proud, from R22 up to S92 - it doesn't hurt sometimes to be reminded of it!

(Oh, and I will also happily captain a netball team!! :8)

Designations
 

When I did the Army Pilot course the offical designation was "Driver Airframe" although we were referred to as pilots.

I don't mind the Captain handle but I certainly don't insist on it. Perhaps there is an element of inverted snobbery due to the fact that I was a Sergeant pilot ? As long as I'm paid people can call me Deputy Assistant to the Assistant Deputy Cockroach Crusher for all I care !!

Bristow overseas operations used to have a rule (no doubt invented by engineers) forbidding "bars in the bar" but it seems to have gone by the board these days.

NEO

I put our recycling out this morning while wearing my stripes!

Pretentious? Moi?

TeeS :)

(or was it my strides?)

On what planet are you from? I've flown on three continents and have yet to meet an uneducated helicopter pilot. Fortuneately, I haven't had the displeasure of meeting you. I wouldn't include yourself as being a part of this small community with comments like these. Jerkweed certainly comes to mind. Do everyone a favour and keep your idiotic comments to yourself. Or at least grow some humility.

PS, do you really have nothing better to do than stir s__t in this forum? Your time may be better spent trying to figure out how to rewire the connection from your mouth to your brain.

Now...If only you could spell...

And now for some humor:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...t/heloplt2.jpg

Gordy. Where did you get those pictures of young Boswell?

If only I could spell? You might want to check your interpretation of how to spell 'fortuneately' Gordy. Not rocket science here folks. Thanks for the cheap shot :mad:.

I hope we're not going to start the Humor v Humour argument as well.........

Re: humor v. humour, is there actually a legitimate entry in some English dictionary for the spelling 'fortuneately'? This is not intended to be a sarcastic post, I simply have never seen this before. But then again, I'm just a helicopter captain. :E