Originally Posted by JohnBurke

Perhaps it's a millenial self-absorption with personal image (residual self image, I believe one said). The preoccupation with self and image is disturbing, but perhaps that's what the selfie-generation has come to.

Oh sure, I can fly a partial panel single engine handflown approach to minimums in a hurricane, but tell me, really, how do I look?

Get over yourselves, folks. Pull up your big boy pants (the ones that go below your knees) sit up straight and quit bouncing in the seat, try to focus for more than 5 seconds, and strain to remember that you're not being paid as a runway model. Your'e being paid as an aviator.

If you really need that beard, the taliban is always looking for a few good rejects.