![]() ![]() My question to them was: If it was your call to make, would you stick with the polos or switch to airline shirts with epaulets? When I was training flight instructors, the break-time conversation one day turned to the company uniform, a dark blue polo with the company’s simple three-letter logo that often led to our staff and students being mistaken for employees if they went into a certain large electronics retailer. “I don’t get oil on my clothes, oh… and the pockets! The pockets!” I don’t recall how it came up, but she told me she used to occasionally see GA pilots in flight suits, and think, “Oh, there goes another pretender.” At least, she thought that until she tried one out herself and became a believer. Not too long after that, I was at one of the annual gatherings of owners, pilots, and lovers of Ercoupes, and was chatting with a pilot who flew down from Canada. That really got Cluck’s goat for some reason, but I remember thinking, “what’s the harm, if it makes them happy?”įollowed closely by thinking, “now wait a minute…is a man who flies in a kilt and cowboy boots really allowed to take issue with anyone else’s wardrobe?” What did bother me a little bit, however, was Cluck - while so dressed - once trash talked some other Bonanza drivers for wearing military-surplus flight suits. Neither choice particularly bothered me, but the mix surely violated every style taboo on the planet, as well as a few legal codes in Third World countries.īut I’m not one to judge others’ wardrobe choices. Bentson)Ĭharles Cluck liked to fly his Bonanza wearing a kilt and cowboy boots. There seems to be some subtle prejudice against flight suits in GA flying, but flight suits make sense for any kind of pilot. ![]()
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