Originally Posted by
John Carr
Hey, that's better than being a Pinnacle pilot on an overnight and getting caught wearing NOTHING but flip flops and a big watch
My favorite was an understaffed airline that had schedulers come into ground school and pull pilots out to go fly, without their uniforms on. "Causal Friday" at the training center. IE; guys in jeans and polos going out and flying legacy airline's passengers around with a legacy airline's logo on the airplane.
We couldn't wear jeans in the sim at 9E, but I did get tagged to go flying after dhding back from my sim. "I'm not refusing, but I didn't bring my uniform." "We don't care, go get em!"
The weirdest thing was trying to remember where I put my pen. I got some nice glares shuffling by passengers down the jetbridge waiting to board. "No seriously, I'm the captain... please let me by."
I'm going to go polish my watch and uniform brass now.