No wings on?
08-11-2016, 10:13 PM
#81
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2010
Position: 145
Posts: 219
Au contraire, because of all of the b*****g about lack of wings, and people wearing their jacket wings on their shirt anyways, we now have official shirt wings. They're optional and only lIke $10 that Trans states will gladly deduct from your paycheck in case you can't live without them.
08-12-2016, 07:33 AM
#83
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Posts: 2,934
Au contraire, because of all of the b*****g about lack of wings, and people wearing their jacket wings on their shirt anyways, we now have official shirt wings. They're optional and only lIke $10 that Trans states will gladly deduct from your paycheck in case you can't live without them.
08-12-2016, 08:04 AM
#84
Standing by to Stand By
Joined APC: Jul 2016
Position: Holding
Posts: 76
You can't think of the wings as being symbolic of an aviation achievement, like you probably do of military wings.
Instead, they're simply symbolic of your employment at a particular shop. When you are given them varies between where you work.
At the regional airline I worked at, I was given the wings unceremoniously by my the examiner after my LOE simulator session at the very end of training.
At the major I work at, I was given them after only a few weeks of non-flying indoctrination training (basically still at the beginning of training -- I hadn't even see the inside of a simulator yet) in a fancy-ish formal ceremony that family/friends are invited to attend.
Overall, it is simply a uniform item that socially has less value and meaning than in the military.
Instead, they're simply symbolic of your employment at a particular shop. When you are given them varies between where you work.
At the regional airline I worked at, I was given the wings unceremoniously by my the examiner after my LOE simulator session at the very end of training.
At the major I work at, I was given them after only a few weeks of non-flying indoctrination training (basically still at the beginning of training -- I hadn't even see the inside of a simulator yet) in a fancy-ish formal ceremony that family/friends are invited to attend.
Overall, it is simply a uniform item that socially has less value and meaning than in the military.
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