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03-30-2017 | 12:35 PM
#9101
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From: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Ah yes, because a uniform piece draped on a rollabag looks waaaaay better (more professional).
Funny thing about looking amateurish. So many times while on the line I see airliners do ameteurish stuff all the time. I really dont know how these guys look in uniform, but thats not the point. Looks are onething. How you operate your metal is where it counts. Sure its nice to see crisp young airmen in the terminal. But how they do busines is way more important (you know, where lives matter).
Also I do look professional in my uniform. But keep in mind beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Im authorized to leave my cowl flaps open so I will. Nothing unprofessional there. Also nobody has provided one document showing professional pilot defined (at least to include buttons). So basically what I am saying is this. If somebody wants to call me unprofessional for not buttoning my jacket then I will only respond with 3 questions.
1) What airline do you think I work for?
2) Do you know my company standards?
3) What leg do you think you have to stand on telling me what is right and wrong?
Fail to answer any of those and I will write you off as some joker who thinks he is Gods gift to airlines. Oh and I will tell you as much. Provide credible support however and I will listen and take note. But just saying it "looks unprofessional" is bull and highly subjective. We operate aircraft on facts not subjective bull.
Give me a solid fact and I promise I will listen and change my wicked ways. Otherwise all this banter on a forum is pure amusement.
Funny thing about looking amateurish. So many times while on the line I see airliners do ameteurish stuff all the time. I really dont know how these guys look in uniform, but thats not the point. Looks are onething. How you operate your metal is where it counts. Sure its nice to see crisp young airmen in the terminal. But how they do busines is way more important (you know, where lives matter).
Also I do look professional in my uniform. But keep in mind beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Im authorized to leave my cowl flaps open so I will. Nothing unprofessional there. Also nobody has provided one document showing professional pilot defined (at least to include buttons). So basically what I am saying is this. If somebody wants to call me unprofessional for not buttoning my jacket then I will only respond with 3 questions.
1) What airline do you think I work for?
2) Do you know my company standards?
3) What leg do you think you have to stand on telling me what is right and wrong?
Fail to answer any of those and I will write you off as some joker who thinks he is Gods gift to airlines. Oh and I will tell you as much. Provide credible support however and I will listen and take note. But just saying it "looks unprofessional" is bull and highly subjective. We operate aircraft on facts not subjective bull.
Give me a solid fact and I promise I will listen and change my wicked ways. Otherwise all this banter on a forum is pure amusement.
03-30-2017 | 02:08 PM
#9103
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Joined: Mar 2009
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From: 756
I'm an expat. Uniform standards is not even a questions. In fact, uniform standards is not a questions with the majority of overseas carriers. My fellow expats read and discuss the dribble on APC, and this is just one where the wine comes out of one's nasai. We even have to wear the dreaded hat
. Oh the humanity. But the good new is no ear buds, no back packs, or the weird colored reflecting sun glasses with white rims.
. Oh the humanity. But the good new is no ear buds, no back packs, or the weird colored reflecting sun glasses with white rims.
03-30-2017 | 02:11 PM
#9104
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From: A350
03-30-2017 | 03:04 PM
#9105
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Ah yes, because a Delta Captain is the diffinitiative authority on airlines. Never mind I dont operate under a Delta Carrier, or even work for Delta.
FWIW i have seen the video. Been a few years. I dont recall the captain mentioning how to button a blazer. Could be a minor oversight
FWIW i have seen the video. Been a few years. I dont recall the captain mentioning how to button a blazer. Could be a minor oversight
03-30-2017 | 03:10 PM
#9106
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Joined: Oct 2016
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From: E175 FO
LOL-everybody is going nuts over the blazer, and the vast majority can't find a proper hat size either. Love the ones that cram it down trying to make it fit like a baseball cap. Looks really "professional"...
Should I even go into the lack of shirts or slacks being pressed? Or are we still prioritizing the "Proper Wear and Appearance of the Professional Pilots Blazer"?
Should I even go into the lack of shirts or slacks being pressed? Or are we still prioritizing the "Proper Wear and Appearance of the Professional Pilots Blazer"?
03-30-2017 | 03:49 PM
#9109
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Joined: Mar 2016
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Let us not bring hats into this, the internet is riddled with proper hat etiquette that we,as pontificating professionals, chose to blindly ignore. I will practice buttoning my blazer when everyone agrees to "doff their hats" in the proper and accustomed fashion.
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