The only thing on that page that I found interesting was Serena and Andria Lee...


_LAFF

.................


YGTBSM...this guy beats all!

I bet that "Maverick" has a bunch of buds just like him who think that they are real military aviators, it wouldn't suprise me one bit if you went on his myspace account and all of his friends were just like him talking about being a fighter pilot at the age of 20 or just acting like they are one. I still can't get over how funny that is.

It's okay to dream; on his blog it says he's an Air Traffic Controller. Wonder why he's wearing an AF flight suit?

I know it is okay to dream, but this guy goes beyond that, and he is wearing an AF flight suit because he is in the Civil Air Patrol, and they get to wear that kind of stuff, if they want to. We all have dreams, but I don't pretend to be someone I am not.

Just wait till he starts ERAU...For all we know - he lurks this board...

-LAFF

But most of you Flight instructors are wannabe airline pilots. So what you are basically saying is that a white shirt with black pants and epulets is EXCLUSIVLY for airline pilots. No one else is allowed to wear them or they will be considered wannabes. So if I wear some BDU pants does that mean I am a soldier wannabe? or if I wear a business suit, am I am executive wannabe? I dont remember pilots having the rights to a certain kind of uniform and noone else being able to wear it. I thik it looks professional. A CFI is a professional pilot arent they?

I am in Civil Air Patrol and yes I do wear a flight suit. I tell people all the time. I couldnt fly in the service due to my vision so yes Civil Air Patrol is the closets I have to being a military pilot. Is that bad? I enjoy CAP and its mission. I am inthe Army in a non aviation role and thats cool too. Just because you wear a certain type of clothing doesnt mean you are perertrating although yes you do have a few people that think they are more than they are. You just have to ignore them.

I hold nothing against instuctors who have to wear the whole pilot getup, they have no choice, but personally I think that it looks ridicolous to get out of a Seminole or Cessna wearing that. The uniform was created by airline pilots and instructors and their companies just started using it. People come would come up to you asking what airline you work for and you just tell them, "I'm a flight instructor". And I am not a airline pilot wannabe, I have never said I was on these forums, or told anyone else I was, just to get that straight. Coming from military aviation myself, it just dosen't look right for someone to get out of a cessna wearing the uniform that we earned at flight school and becoming an officer. To wear military wings and that flight suit for your everyday uniform takes years of hardwork and dedication, something that I think the young guys in the CAP take for granted and wear the uniform and flaunt it around prentending that they are something that they are not. I don't know you and I never said that you portray yourself that way. That is why I think that the flight suit and steel toe boots look ridiculous coming out of a cessna, it just doesn't fit, just like instructors like myself, climbing out wearing the airline pilot uniform. In my opinion, those uniforms are something that you have to earn inorder to wear them.

It's OK to be a wannabe, anybody who ever got anywhere used to be one! The uniform is totally non-ergonomic in light aircraft...but most of the CFI's who do wear it have no choice due to company policy, which is usually based on marketing. So there's not really much point in busting on them for wearing it to work. Out in town is another story...

Essentially all airlines prohibit pilots from wearing their uniform unless traveling to and from work.

And yes, the average guy (or girl) on the street ALWAYS assumes that you are an airline pilot if you're in uniform, and we ALL know this. So if someone wears a pilot uniform out in town unnecessarily, he is doing so to send the message that he is an airline pilot. If he really is one, he's a dork. If he's not, then he's a poser.