No wings on?
08-11-2016 | 08:02 AM
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I think it's silly to even try to qualify who gets wings and who doesn't. If you need a silly piece of metal to justify your skill...
08-11-2016 | 08:17 AM
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Thread from the dead, but closest to on topic I could find...
I'm curious as to what point in training civilian pilots earn the right to wear wings? It took a year and a half in the Navy, I'm assuming it'll be less on the other side.
I'm also curious as to what the design is, I've gathered that each airline has a different one.
I'm curious as to what point in training civilian pilots earn the right to wear wings? It took a year and a half in the Navy, I'm assuming it'll be less on the other side.
I'm also curious as to what the design is, I've gathered that each airline has a different one.
Nothing makes a real pilot laugh more than the guy at a flight school or FBO wearing "private pilot" wings or epaulettes. Even universities that wear them as part of their flight training makes the wearer a tool.
Airline/Military pilots wear wings. Some corporate guys (sort of). Thats about it.
08-11-2016 | 08:46 AM
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If you are issued wings as a part of your uniform, and required to wear them, then you wear them.
Nothing makes a real pilot laugh more than the guy at a flight school or FBO wearing "private pilot" wings or epaulettes. Even universities that wear them as part of their flight training makes the wearer a tool.
Airline/Military pilots wear wings. Some corporate guys (sort of). Thats about it.
Nothing makes a real pilot laugh more than the guy at a flight school or FBO wearing "private pilot" wings or epaulettes. Even universities that wear them as part of their flight training makes the wearer a tool.
Airline/Military pilots wear wings. Some corporate guys (sort of). Thats about it.
If it makes you feel good do it. Lol I never wear my issued wings on my shirt. It just gets in the way of the shoulder harness
08-11-2016 | 08:48 AM
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If you are issued wings as a part of your uniform, and required to wear them, then you wear them.
Nothing makes a real pilot laugh more than the guy at a flight school or FBO wearing "private pilot" wings or epaulettes. Even universities that wear them as part of their flight training makes the wearer a tool.
Airline/Military pilots wear wings. Some corporate guys (sort of). Thats about it.
Nothing makes a real pilot laugh more than the guy at a flight school or FBO wearing "private pilot" wings or epaulettes. Even universities that wear them as part of their flight training makes the wearer a tool.
Airline/Military pilots wear wings. Some corporate guys (sort of). Thats about it.
I felt ridiculous wearing epaullets and climbing out of a Cessna 152, but the decision was way above me. Still, most of us wore the sweater over it all, which worked well in a poorly sealed Cessna.
08-11-2016 | 02:49 PM
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Instead, they're simply symbolic of your employment at a particular shop. When you are given them varies between where you work.
At the regional airline I worked at, I was given the wings unceremoniously by my the examiner after my LOE simulator session at the very end of training.
At the major I work at, I was given them after only a few weeks of non-flying indoctrination training (basically still at the beginning of training -- I hadn't even see the inside of a simulator yet) in a fancy-ish formal ceremony that family/friends are invited to attend.
Overall, it is simply a uniform item that socially has less value and meaning than in the military.
08-11-2016 | 02:50 PM
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Classy.
08-11-2016 | 03:58 PM
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I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
08-11-2016 | 04:21 PM
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At the regional airline I worked at, I was given the wings unceremoniously by my the examiner after my LOE simulator session at the very end of training.
At the major I work at, I was given them after only a few weeks of non-flying indoctrination training (basically still at the beginning of training -- I hadn't even see the inside of a simulator yet) in a fancy-ish formal ceremony that family/friends are invited to attend.
08-11-2016 | 04:39 PM
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That being said, working at a career destination is better in every way imaginable. Hopefully you're able to make your own escape soon!
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