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I would prefer to be incognito, but as my company & all the previous ones require me to wear a uniform and hat I do just that, also when wearing it, it is always clean, jacket buttoned and hat worn according to company regulations.......one day in retirement I'm sure I won't miss it, in the meantime I conform.

Ah, LH, never forget, if the cap fits you must wear it.

the other half . . .

The other half is pretty much like Con-Pilot.

He once worked in a climate very unsuitable for wearing the pie plate, and mostly wore a very unofficial beanie I'd knitted for him. (I think he may have taken it off for line checks, but I know he never wore the pie plate.) Heck, if the company issues "those pilots" (as opposed to the ones who fly with hosties and always land at aerodromes with security) a foul hi-viz yellow foul weather jacket, then they should skip wasting money on a silly hat and just give them a nice knitted beanie with the company logo embroidered on it.

But I digress.

Another guy there was all about the hat (and the shiny bars as well, I suspect). He wore the pie plate in these unsuitable conditions and, wait for it . . .

his FB profile photo shows him sitting in the RHS (his current location) of what he flies now.

Can't really see any bars in the photo, but it looks like he's in his uniform. At least he's not a student.

However, to be a bit immodest, the other half (who's FB photo profile photo is of him on the sofa with three chihuahuas asleep on top of him) was generally considered by his SLF to be a superior aviator to the uniform lover above. (And, to again be immodest, they were correct.)

Not that the husband doesn't look damn hot in a typical pilot's uniform. He does.

Our official company flying Part 91 for the owner uniform is khaki pants and a blue polo shirt. :ok:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/0171522/L/
But it is his own plane, so what.

Will never forget at my flying school a guy turned up with his family to take them up in a pa-28..........dressed in 4 bars, jacket.....and hat!!!!

Oh how we chuckled!

The uniform is smart, but keep it for the 'career' pilots!! :ok: