% of professional pilots who fly for airlines

I just recently got a job where I have to where a uniform. I've been asked a couple of times about the uniform in various places, I just tell people I drive a Greyhound bus and it ends it pretty quickly.
 
I don't have any problem telling people what I do. Guess I'm not a good fibber. I do try to ditch the stripes and tie after security when I jumpseat. I try to NOT look like a pilot whenever possible. But if someone asks me I don't mind telling them what I do. I humbly tell them my situation in life is simply a blessing from a higher power.
 
DE727UPS said:
I don't have any problem telling people what I do. Guess I'm not a good fibber. I do try to ditch the stripes and tie after security when I jumpseat. I try to NOT look like a pilot whenever possible. But if someone asks me I don't mind telling them what I do. I humbly tell them my situation in life is simply a blessing from a higher power.
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Yeah I don't get the people that make stuff up.
 
DE727UPS said:
I don't have any problem telling people what I do. Guess I'm not a good fibber. I do try to ditch the stripes and tie after security when I jumpseat. I try to NOT look like a pilot whenever possible. But if someone asks me I don't mind telling them what I do. I humbly tell them my situation in life is simply a blessing from a higher power.
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The best is when in uniform, in an airport, and the question "Arr yew a pielit" question gets asked. "What gave it away?"
 
wildfreightess said:
"Oh. Do you want to be a commercial pilot someday?"
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Yep, still get that a lot. I tell them I already am and get the usual RCA dog look staring at me. They say, "No, I mean an airline pilot"? When I tell them I'm an airline pilot I get the "wheels stuck in neutral distant stare". "No, I mean a real airline pilot like Delta or United....." I tell them I couldn't afford the pay cut at which point they promptly change the subject.
 
mshunter said:
The best is when in uniform, in an airport, and the question "Arr yew a pielit" question gets asked. "What gave it away?"
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Guess it's better than when someone drops their bags off in front of you while you're waiting curbside for the hotel van and asks you to check their bags to their destination thinking you are a skycap (and yes, this has happened). :rolleyes:

Or, when strolling through terminal of some large international airport (looking for food) and someone comes up to you out of breath and frantically asking which gate their flight goes out of, as if I have a current mental rolodex of every flight coming and going....:bang:

Boxes don't ask questions......
 
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A300Capt said:
Guess it's better than when someone drops their bags off in front of you while you're waiting curbside for the hotel van and asks you to check their bags to their destination thinking you are a skycap (and yes, this has happened). :rolleyes:
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I had the flip side: someone at the hotel asks you to take their bags to the van. And I did.

The worst part is that the tips really suck.
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
I'm staying near TVC for the summer. Mostly just sitting around, mountain biking, fishing, trail building etc. Most of the time people want to know why I'm in town. My standard "I manage high speed aluminum tubing" seems insincere in such a small town when people ask. So now: "I manage a property here." Kinda true if you include the hangar...

It avoids the standard litany of idiotic questions when people find out you are a pilot. Plus it is fun to be thought of as a handy guy.

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Hahah, love the tubing one. My CP, myself and 3 other new hires got picked up at the terminal a few weeks back going to indoc. Shuttle driver asks us what we are in town for and my CP says "the landscaping convention". Needless to say no more questions were asked. I have to start writing these down to use them.
 
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