Originally Posted by
brocklee9000
They did a ferry recently and their CA showed up in biz cas instead of uniform, and he just rolled with it because that’s what you do as a new FO. On day 1 he asked me if that was actually approved, and I said “yeah I think so,” but I always like to cite my sources (especially since I had no idea where that was actually written down).
I have hunted all over the FOM PPM SOPM Indoc slides and every other document I can think of, to no avail. I swear my Indoc instructor even went on a whole sidebar about how it’s so cool and how one time they got to list their family on the manifest for a 91 repo etc. I’ve also been rescued by un-uniformed crew before, so I’ve seen it with my own eyes. And I’ve seen pics of our new aircraft delivery ferries where they’re dressed down.
Typically it may be approved by virtue of the fact that they sometimes pull a management pilot from the office (which is business casual) to do the ferry. Or if you’re out on the golf course and get a call for OT, you can always ask the chief pilot if it’s ok. Without permission, though, it would be a little weird.
As a side note, deadheading to a flying assignment requires the uniform to be worn on the deadhead. Desdheads from a flying assignment do not.