To Pilot602 (and a lesson to all commuting pilots)

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Now do you understand why it's bad to wear a uniform while commuting, especially when you're riding an airline which you have no operational knowledge of? :)

Ha!

And uhhhh, PCA is $60/month flat.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Now do you understand why it's bad to wear a uniform while commuting, especially when you're riding an airline which you have no operational knowledge of? :)

Ha!

And uhhhh, PCA is $60/month flat.
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Uh ..... engrish? Suddenly I have an almost unbearable urge to nod-off. :D


Yeah I know PCA has a monthly fee ... everytime I go to set it up I either a) forget or b) don't have the "three month up front" extortion money.

And while I know I cause myself a lot of grief wearing the monkey suit, at least I can take +3oz of liquid with me!
 
Velocipede said:
Wear it long enough to get through the TSA monkeys...then change.
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Do you change in the pilot lounges?

I remember seeing a sign at LGA that indicated it was a violation of a city ordinance to change clothes in their bathrooms. I thought that was odd....
 
Velocipede said:
Wear it long enough to get through the TSA monkeys...then change.
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Done it myself. No reason why we shouldn't be able to. We are the same exact person IN or OUT of uniform. Why can't the morons at the good ol' TSA understand this?
 
Chris_Ford said:
TSA is not letting crews do this any more. There's a thread on flightinfo about it.
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They can kiss my sweet a^^!! I know you are the messenger, but oh man they boil my blood.

We had a TSA agent waltz onto the plane the other day like she owned it and we had words about needing to check her ID first. :banghead:
 
So the TSA, in it's infinite wisdom wants us to either (a) fly in uniform or (b) check our luggage, arrive at our base, exit security, recapture the luggage, and then do what? have the liquids confiscated? aroo?!

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Iiiiiiidiot. I'm sure he's a nice guy, loves scotch and plays a mean round of golf, but Kip Hawley, yet again, is indicative of why you don't want political appointees in positions dealing with gravity, sharp objects or skilled professionals.
 
It is the most asanine set of rules of any organization that I know of in the whole world.

You have to put epauletes on your shoulders to bring a waterbottle into the terminal but once you get through with it you cannot remove the epaulets until the waterbottle is empty.

Or, what is now being asserted -- even if you finish your water and give away your shampoo to people at the gate you cannot remove the epaulets or change shirts.

I wonder, is putting on a sweater over a shirt changing uniform? After all, probably every airline out there has the option of a sweater over the shirt, albeit some might require a blazer to be worn with it until in the cockpit. A sweater covering up the uniform does not make a pilot out of uniform.

Can someone change into their pilot uniform once in the secure area?

I non-revved EWR-SEA-BOI-SEA-EWR last month without leaving the secure area, surely they did not expect me to wear the same shirt for 22 hours?


In year 2000 who would have thought that within the decade you would no longer be able to bring water into an airport terminal with you.

They are making all the wrong moves towards the wrong group of people.
 
The trick is, is that John Q. Public sees Kip Hawley and his band of TSA thugs pushing pilots around and thinks, "GOLLY maing! They're tough! I feel that much safer!"

Eyewash for the masses.
 
Gee golly...this world that we live in. What ever happened to good ole common sense? That's such a rare concept for so many things nowadays.
 
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