Originally Posted by
CLT Guy
If you are issued wings as a part of your uniform, and required to wear them, then you wear them.
Nothing makes a real pilot laugh more than the guy at a flight school or FBO wearing "private pilot" wings or epaulettes. Even universities that wear them as part of their flight training makes the wearer a tool.
Airline/Military pilots wear wings. Some corporate guys (sort of). Thats about it.
Yeah, the only time I've had to deal with that at a flight school was for contract work. Airlines would have their cadets wearing uniforms from day one, and they pay the bills.
I felt ridiculous wearing epaullets and climbing out of a Cessna 152, but the decision was way above me. Still, most of us wore the sweater over it all, which worked well in a poorly sealed Cessna.