Your lanyard and you...
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Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
http://www.uvu.edu/profpages/profiles/show/user_id/1737
I wasn't meaning to imply that @ClarkGriswold was the same as Mr Green here, in that Mr Green appears on a certain list that is sometimes used to identify people who have been harmful to the profession in the past.
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
There sure are a lot of professional aviators out there who wear neck lanyards to secure their ID and credentials, so that's an odd statement if you're not being sarcastic. I did for most of my career in military flying, both in flight suits and in dress blues when that was the uniform of the day.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
Don't forget backpacks.
ClarkGriswold
Non Nutritive Cereal Varnish Engineer
Ha wait I was hired at Continental in 1984 though!
skyw82
Well-Known Member
But what's so significant
There sure are a lot of professional aviators out there who wear neck lanyards to secure their ID and credentials, so that's an odd statement if you're not being sarcastic. I did for most of my career in military flying, both in flight suits and in dress blues when that was the uniform of the day.
I'm serious, a id clip works just as well or a solid black lanyard.
SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
The ID clipped to the epaulet is unprofessional. You might as well hang your sunglasses there too.
skyw82
Well-Known Member
Keep it clipped on your flap pocket.
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
As mentioned previously, there are FOD or other issues with losing ID that is simply affixed with a clip. There are all kinds of things in and around an aircraft that can cause that clip to come loose enough to have the badge slip off -- and there is a high potential for that to occur without the owner even knowing it occurred.
Having a more secure means of retention is the entire point of a neck lanyard. On the flightline in the USAF, line badges have to be secured either with a lanyard or some other means of retention other than just the clip for this exact reason; many have been lost, and when they're lost they often go places on the airplane that can damage it.
Not agreeing with having colors or logos, etc, on a lanyard is a far cry from saying "lanyards are unprofessional." It isn't about flair, it is about security of an important credential in an area where free foreign objects can cause big safety problems.
ClarkGriswold
Non Nutritive Cereal Varnish Engineer
esa17
Well-Known Member
Wow...I thought you were kidding. A lanyard is a perfectly acceptable, and professional, method of securing and displaying an ID.
surreal1221
Well-Known Member
They'll let anyone be a professor eh?
UVU knocked that one out of the park.
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skyw82
Well-Known Member
maybe a solid black or a company provided one is but anything else isn't.
esa17
Well-Known Member
I couldn't disagree more.
Tie-tacks must really get your goat....or watches, or sunglasses....or wedding rings.
skyw82
Well-Known Member
I think it looks bad when I see a pilot walking in the terminal holding a food and drink as well.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
Ah yes...can't have the plebes thinking we eat and drink like mere mortals can we. Do you prefer to change out of uniform before taking a leak lest someone see you in uniform at a urinal?
PositionAndHold
Well-Known Member
Just curious. What if a Lorenzo CO scab told you the same thing. "Wasn't aware of a strike, I was on leave. Came back to work and some people were protesting but hey, I went to work. ALPA let us back in the fold, so every ALPA pilot shouldn't need a scab list since we're all ALPA right?"
ALPA takes credit for raises and work rules when it works out? Then the they claim they have no control of "business practices" of airlines when things don't work out. Which they don't. So when they take credit for a pay raise or better work rules they shouldn't. Because again, they "don't have any control over an airlines business practices". Rinse repeat.