That's pretty lame. Most, if not all, civilian pilots back in the golden age of flying wore leather jackets with warm fuzzy liners. Because it worked. Military experience and combat had not a damned thing to do with wearing a leather jacket when flying. Any pilot who might experience weather or temperature extremes will be well prepared if they're wearing a leather flying jacket. Because that's what those jackets were designed for. Flying. Not military flying, but *flying*.

Prima donna wanna-be fighter pilots trying to tell young pilots what to wear, I tell you what...