Why wear the monkey suit?

[mshunter]

One...never mind.

No, please do. Since you seem to know more of the goings on over here than I do.

 

[Boris Badenov]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Flight suits. You don't have to iron them, you dont ever have to decide what to wear, you can spill a bottle of ketchup and no one will notice, kids think you're a racecar driver, and the Walmart cashier not only thanks you for your service, but gives a snappy salute.

 

[derg]

Plus, it's not as much a fashion thing as it is displaying authority.

Flying a small airplane, who cares. You know the three or four passengers you have onboard by their first names.

When you're sitting behind a locked cockpit door with 300 passengers and 11 flight attendants and something goes down requiring an evac, you're going to need a little more than khaki cargo pants, a golf shirt and the "I assure you, I am in command" statement when Ma and Pa Kettle are trying to pull their crap out of the overhead before they spring down the slides.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Plus, it's not as much a fashion thing as it is displaying authority.

Flying a small airplane, who cares. You know the three or four passengers you have onboard by their first names.

When you're sitting behind a locked cockpit door with 300 passengers and 11 flight attendants and something goes down requiring an evac, you're going to need a little more than khaki cargo pants, a golf shirt and the "I assure you, I am in command" statement when Ma and Pa Kettle are trying to pull their crap out of the overhead before they spring down the slides.

This is true of 76 seats, 68 seats, 50 seats, 44 seats, 37 seats, and 30 27.5 seats as well.

 

[Stone Cold]

Try flying to a foreign country without a uniform on. They'd arrest you for flying an aircraft not being a pilot. The certificates don't matter. Only the uniform, with stripes. All 4 stripes matter. Ideally the FO should have 4 stripes to. Otherwise he's not a pilot either.

I'm not sure what countries you fly into, but I've been overseas for almost 6 1/2 years, and been flying in business suits for over 4 years of it. I've had no problems at all with people...they know who we are. This is throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

My boss says wear a suit, so I wear a suit. It's not a hard concept. Prior to this job, boss said wear the monkey suit, so I wore it. I'd prefer khakis and a Polo, but I don't write the checks.

 

[derg]

This is true of 76 seats, 68 seats, 50 seats, 44 seats, 37 seats, and 30 27.5 seats as well.

I know, sweetie, but Uncle Derg was using an "extreme".

 

[Stone Cold]

"Bless his little heart!"

 

[derg]

"Bless his little heart!"

IT'S STILL A HEART!

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I know, sweetie, but Uncle Derg was using an "extreme".

I want to teach people how to iron. I mean, Mrs. Blue's boy figured it out all by his little self at American's Beagle, there's no reason that everyone else can't figure it out either.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

"Bless his little heart!"

It's still there. Sort of.

 

[MikeD]

"No covers on the flight line, sir," as @dasleben would admonish.

If the winds are calm, I wear the lid on the walkaround; if it's not, it stays up on the hook. I have a non-epaulet fleece sweater for wear up front, or under my blazer, and it. is. amazing.

Hats on the flightline are just FOD, so they don't get worn there. At the same time, hats aren't to be worn indoors either as that's uncouth also. So where would an airline pilot legitimately wear the hat? Outdoors not on a flightline? Such as to/from the POV or shuttle bus and the terminal? I understand an airline requiring it, I just don't understand the practical use area for it. Very few times.

 

[derg]

Hats on the flightline are just FOD, so they don't get worn there. At the same time, hats aren't to be worn indoors either as that's uncouth also. So where would an airline pilot legitimately wear the hat? Outdoors not on a flightline? Such as to/from the POV or shuttle bus and the terminal? I understand an airline requiring it, I just don't understand the practical use area for it. Very few times.

Like nipples on a man. It just is what it is.

 

[MikeD]

So true. In the urgent care setting where my wife works they recently banned company T Shirts. Doctors, NP's, PA's, RN's and so on wear scrubs. She wore a lab coat during clinicals for her Master's, but that was all the wear that thing got. Really the lab coat only exists like an apron. Wash this germ sponge on super hot and spare the rest of your clothes..

My dad never wore a lab coat, besides his residency. He always wore a conservative coat/tie for his rounds. Scrubs were only to be worn going into or out of surgery, never worn around as daily wear. He still is surprised to see how many doctors wear scrubs as a uniform.

 

[MikeD]

Like nipples on a man. It just is what it is.

So hats are worn on the flightline too? Probably right up until one FODs a motor out......

 

[MikeD]

it would make us harder to be recognized as "the help" instead of "the bad guy" or a nobody. .

Not the case with many fire/EMS uniforms adorned with badges, etc. Too many mistaken as cops by perps.

 

[derg]

So hats are worn on the flightline too? Probably right up until one FODs a motor out......

Nope! They can, but the guidance is that it's a safety hazard which I fully agree with.

 

[MikeD]

When you're sitting behind a locked cockpit door with 300 passengers and 11 flight attendants and something goes down requiring an evac, you're going to need a little more than khaki cargo pants, a golf shirt and the "I assure you, I am in command" statement when Ma and Pa Kettle are trying to pull their crap out of the overhead before they spring down the slides.

Haven't you been in the biz long enough to realize that the people pulling crap out of the overhead during an evac, are the ones you leave behind for Mr Darwin's arrival and greeting?

 

[MikeD]

Nope! They can, but the guidance is that it's a safety hazard which I fully agree with.

Agreed. Still weird seeing hats worn indoors though. Always been a big no-no in my upbringing.

 

[derg]

Haven't you been in the biz long enough to realize that the people pulling crap out of the overhead during an evac, are the ones you leave behind for Mr Darwin's arrival and greeting?

If they're the last ones off, for sure. But if they're blocking egress, they gots to go.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

My dad never wore a lab coat, besides his residency. He always wore a conservative coat/tie for his rounds. Scrubs were only to be worn going into or out of surgery, never worn around as daily wear. He still is surprised to see how many doctors wear scrubs as a uniform.

There are scrubs, and then there are surgical scrubs!