Originally Posted by afterburn81

This right here is the key! This is one of the most significant reasons I decided to sink a substantial amount of cash into R&D with this bag. So many pilots are quick to judge guys about the appearance of their uniform, and other things such as back packs and headphones. Which is understandable. It would seem as if appearance is important at some level.

So why not judge a guy walking around puling the worlds cheapest bag with one wheel dragging, the skid plate just waiting to give someone tetanus and stuff hanging out of the pockets that are duck tapped shut? Granted a guy with a bag like that has pretty much put himself in that situation since these bags really don't just fall apart. Trust me, if there is anyone that has seen it all when it comes to the crap people do to their bags it's me.

It truly makes me cringe when I see a senior captain driving around a 3 year old bag that has clearly seen a war or two.

When people send their bags to me or drop them off at Crewoutfitters, they get a loaner bag. Sometimes they run out of LW bags so all they have left is Travelpro. From the moment they drop off their bag people are calling me asking me when it will be done and if I can hurry up so that they can get their LW bag back. Most guys really hate those Travelpro things. At least that has been my experience. From the sounds of this thread you would thing otherwise though.