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Wow! This subject definitely deserves more debate! Geez...

AA WO New Uniform Problem

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Originally Posted by loc n slope (Post 2189836)

When a hat is optional, wearing one says you're a bit of a tool. You want people to look at you in awe that you're a pilot. Or maybe management type. Plenty of people they wear hats when optional and they're just fine.

When any part of the uniform is mandatory and not worn purposely, they're just too cool for school. Probably a huge db, immature, and the type that will cheat a walk-around, leave out call-outs, and show that the checklist has been memorized when one has been called for.

Right, because to do the least one can possibly do is to show how cool one is. People would come to work in ripped jeans and a stained t-shirt if they could make fun of the guy wearing the intact pants and a polo. The same guys that are late to show, playing with their phone when they should be doing a flow, drinking a Dunkin' and hardly looking at a plane during preflight, or even can't be bothered to push a couple buttons before they come to work and ensure their EFB is updated. Maybe they're unhappy about the hat-wearer suggesting they do their job right?

The uniform has a cachet that goes with it, and I guarantee the vast majority of the people who have always wanted to be an airline pilot thought that getting to wear that uniform would be pretty badass. I'm sure many of you tried your first uniform on as soon as it was issued before you even got out of ground school. How quickly the shine wears off, because only the rookies and company men wear their full kit, right? Pity. A well-dressed pilot looks sharp, respectable, professional and worth every penny. The reason people feel safe aboard our planes. Some people would prefer to look otherwise.

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Originally Posted by adiosmikefox (Post 2189920)

right, because to do the least one can possibly do is to show how cool one is. People would come to work in ripped jeans and a stained t-shirt if they could make fun of the guy wearing the intact pants and a polo. The same guys that are late to show, playing with their phone when they should be doing a flow, drinking a dunkin' and hardly looking at a plane during preflight, or even can't be bothered to push a couple buttons before they come to work and ensure their efb is updated. Maybe they're unhappy about the hat-wearer suggesting they do their job right?

The uniform has a cachet that goes with it, and i guarantee the vast majority of the people who have always wanted to be an airline pilot thought that getting to wear that uniform would be pretty badass. I'm sure many of you tried your first uniform on as soon as it was issued before you even got out of ground school. How quickly the shine wears off, because only the rookies and company men wear their full kit, right? Pity. A well-dressed pilot looks sharp, respectable, professional and worth every penny. The reason people feel safe aboard our planes. Some people would prefer to look otherwise.

+10000000^

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Originally Posted by tennisguru (Post 2189410)

It's supposed to be a "hard" cutover, so yes technically you are supposed to carry the new uniform with you to start wearing on the 20th. I guess if you leave late on the 19th you'll have to strip and change in the cockpit at midnight.

I'll be sure to fold the jacket extra tight so I can fit all 6-days worth of clothing into a 24" bag. That will really give the extra sharp look AAG is looking for.

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How did the new uniform rollout fly today?

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I received mine a week before the rollout and I'm out of town until the end of September. So I won't even be able to take it to the tailors until at least October. Which means I won't likely be wearing it until my last trip of October... Over a month after the official roll out. Not my fault, I ordered everything well within the allotted time. I have no idea why it took so long to receive it.

I did see more pilots NOT wearing the uniform today than those wearing it.

Chief pilot said there was a pilot that just got their uniform in the mail yesterday. He expects it to take up to 3 months before everyone is in the new uniforms.

Yea, I'd say there is a problem!
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Originally Posted by boiler07 (Post 2207155)

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An abomination!

Looks like an identity crisis.