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Old 10-18-2009, 01:07 PM   #121 (permalink)
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I recently witnessed a pilot drinking a beer at a bar in an airport. He had the uniform shirt and pants but no tie, ID, wings, bars etc. However, from the shirt and pants as well as his luggage and stickers on his chart case, it was obvious he was a pilot. The appearance was that he had just gotten off of duty and going home (hopefully as a ticketed passenger and not as a jumpseater)

I'm not passing judgment as I am not sure one way or the other. This scene just made me wonder if this was proper.
Like Hercules said how do you know he was a pilot? Could have been a FA. Obama seems to think its okay to have a beer while at work at the white house with a cop. Whats wrong with an OUT of uniform pilot having a beer. I'm sure nobody at the bar even noticed.....
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Old 10-18-2009, 02:39 PM   #122 (permalink)
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.......Obama seems to think its okay to have a beer while at work at the white house with a cop. Whats wrong with an OUT of uniform pilot having a beer. I'm sure nobody at the bar even noticed.....
Last I knew, the White House was where he lives. So, one minute you're chastising someone for "thinking" this guy was a pilot, and the next you're chastising someone for drinking a beer at THEIR OWN HOUSE. Wow...... For those who seem to think "no one ever notices", you're alot more naive than you think.
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Old 10-18-2009, 02:49 PM   #123 (permalink)
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You made an assumption about this guy and dont know if he was a pilot. We live in a free country and until you can prove he was a pilot then I think your just stirring the pot. Dont get me wrong I dont condone the behavior of drinking in uniform but you dont have all the facts.
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I'm not passing judgment as I am not sure one way or the other. This scene just made me wonder if this was proper.
If helps the discussion - pretend it is a hypothetical situation.

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Old 10-18-2009, 04:20 PM   #124 (permalink)
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Last I knew, the White House was where he lives. So, one minute you're chastising someone for "thinking" this guy was a pilot, and the next you're chastising someone for drinking a beer at THEIR OWN HOUSE. Wow......
Some pilots live at the airport.
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:44 AM   #126 (permalink)
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Some pilots live at the airport.

You got that right! We used to have a guy (a senior pilot), who washed his shirts in the pilot's crewroom bathroom every morning. This guy was DISGUSTING. He had his bar of soap, and every morning he was in the bathroom with a sink full of shirts and soap. Some pilots have NO life, and unfortunately this job makes it easy for them to continue that lifestyle.
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:47 AM   #127 (permalink)
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You made an assumption about this guy and dont know if he was a pilot. We live in a free country and until you can prove he was a pilot then I think your just stirring the pot. Dont get me wrong I dont condone the behavior of drinking in uniform but you dont have all the facts.

Why don't you read my post again? It says that this scene made me wonder if this was proper. It also said that I didn't pass a judgment one way or the other. You call it stirring the pot, I call it beginning a topic of discussion. I kind of think that such a thing is ok to do on a "discussion board".
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:56 AM   #128 (permalink)
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Like Hercules said how do you know he was a pilot? Could have been a FA.
I couldn't have determined that with 100% certainty. However, if both of us were there and had bet on it........say, a C- note, (most FA's don't carry Luggage Works bags WITH a chart case adorned with Boeing stickers et al.) then I'm certain enough that you would have been $100 poorer and I would have had to buy you a beer with the money you just lost.

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Whats wrong with an OUT of uniform pilot having a beer. I'm sure nobody at the bar even noticed.....
Perhaps you should read a little more carefully next time before asking such questions. I don't know if it's wrong or not. That's why I posted the topic for discussion.
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