Shaving and general grooming
12-31-2008, 12:38 PM
#21
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2008
Posts: 138
For an interview you'd be right, but for a pilot the grooming standards are way down the list below things like "Maintain thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee" and monitoring your angle of arrival.
12-31-2008, 12:43 PM
#22
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Posts: 138
12-31-2008, 01:10 PM
#23
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: FAA 'Flight Check'
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USMCFLYR
12-31-2008, 04:38 PM
#24
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Joined APC: Dec 2008
Posts: 138
I guess I have been lucky so far then. On Christmas Eve I spent 4 hours in Terminal 3 at Houston and saw numerous CAL pilots pass by while I sat people watching. Although there was one pilot on the tram who I wanted to ask how old he was (I didn't), I didn't see one single pilot who didn't look every part of the professional.
USMCFLYR
USMCFLYR
12-31-2008, 05:48 PM
#25
A Second Past V1
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Position: Assumed
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01-01-2009, 01:30 AM
#27
New Hire
Joined APC: Nov 2008
Posts: 5
it's a service industry and the customer is more at ease with people who look smart and capable, more so it is a dissaplined proffession in the name of saftey ;so,tow the line do the job get prommoted;where your piercings on days off.retire early and go back to GA AND SURF EARLY.
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01-01-2009, 02:20 AM
#29
New Hire
Joined APC: Nov 2008
Posts: 5
probably not! to ugly and wrong sex for that kind of job?worked in hotel and catering;now called hospitallity ,the name gives it away,it s not just the pilot. in fact probably least so;but the whole air line and all staff that should provide the sevice,some one pays they have a idea of what they expect in return.incedently i was frequently pulled for my appearence;even at the sim,not the company image ect
