DL Capt uniform on Ebay Options

[SF3aviatrix]

Coat was for sale on eBay. Looks like its been yanked for security reasons. The links are dead but the comments are worth the read...

Delta Air Line Captain Pilot Uniform Authentic Original
Item number: 7717075998 for Sale by b777md11

AUTHENTIC Delta Air Lines Captain Pilot Uniform

This uniform was worn by a dedicated Delta Pilot for many years. Now retired and robbed of part, or all, of promised pension, uniform is now offered for sale to supplement income.

Suit is worn and empty but filled with memories and honor. Suit has been across many miles and many experiences. Suit was once filled with pride and service getting thousands of passengers to their destination safely. Suit has been through rain, snow, ice, and wind without a single tear or scratch. Suit once controlled multi-million dollar assets, flown throughout the world, with billions of dollars of liability to the company. Suit has never cost company one (1) cent in accident or injury.

Although the suit is worn and has been discarded by the company, it can be yours. Suit is clean but used. Coat may be soiled from hydraulic fluid or grease as plane was inspected. Shirt may be soiled from mad dashes through the airport in a rush to the next plane in an effort to get back on schedule. Tie may have stains from fast food meals that were hurriedly eaten while at the controls. Tie comes with you choice of pins, Air Line Pilots Association, Air Force, or Airplane. Pants may show signs of wear from may hours spent strapped into a seat, hip shows some signs of wear from firearm used to protect you and your passengers from harm. Shoes are shiny but worn. Suit comes with choice of Old Delta or New Delta emblems. Many prefer the Old Delta.

Suit is thought by many to have APHRODISIAC qualities, although this cannot be confirmed or denied.

BEWARE putting on this suit can have adverse effects on you life. It can cause you to miss you childrens birth. It can cause you to miss holiday reunions, family times, and weekends. You may miss your Daughters prom and your Sons graduation. Your family may think Christmas is not always on December 25th. Your wife will have to learn to be a single parent when you are gone for days. The suit can cause you to miss entire nights of sleep or get up at 3 AM to meet your next schedule. Your neighbors may be jealous of you and think you do not deserve to wear the uniform or be compensated for your work.

Originally suit required a four year college degree and an internship of 5-10 years in the military, and another 10-15 years for the fourth stripe. Suit comes with a promise of a pension if you provide years of dedication and service. THE PROMISE MAY BE AS EMPTY AS THE SUIT. Now it can be had for the highest bid. Good Luck bidding.

[Crashman]

This makes the Crashman angry... angry enough to rant! Crashman's uncle was a 747 driver for Eastern, who retired before the airline industry - and his airline - fell upon these sad days. Crashman asks:

Why do we so dishonor this group of essential, highly skilled people, so necessary to the modern world? Why are their unions the object of so much management pressure? Why are they so underpaid and overworked until they reach the very top level - which few do? Why do they always have to fight for enforcement of the most basic safety rules, like on-duty hours restrictions and safe MELs? Why do they now always have to pay from their own pocket for their training? Why are things arranged so that even a young person totally in love with flying now gulps and thinks twice before setting out to be a pro? And usually has to give up somewhere along the line, just to make a decent living and feed a family?

Because nobody cares? Airlines have made flying the worldwide most preferred mode of transport and made its price within the reach of everyone - to the point where it is unusual now to find anyone who hasn't flown somewhere (this was NOT true as recently as 30-40 years ago). And we STILL have no regard for these first-line soldiers of aviation, who put it on the line - literally! - every single day? Who hold thousands of human lives in their hands every month? Not even doctors do that - and Drs. get to bury their mistakes. Anything goes wrong with a flight, and U betcha where the groundhogs' finger will first point!

Crashman says: You will NEVER KNOW how many line pilots have earned 30 years of pay in 30 seconds - and never made the newspapers or even an incident report. You will NEVER KNOW how many lives have been saved because some fine Captain somewhere looked at the mets, took the hardest road, and said: "Sorry- today, this flight is cancelled." You will NEVER KNOW how many disasters have been averted because somebody with years of training and thousands of hours looked at a MEL, at a Wx report, at a shaky gauge indication, at some frost on the wing - and did the right thing even when the Company punished him/her for it. And to hear tales like that Delta Captain's - YAAAAGHHHHGGGH! (mods have to take Crashman away, struggling and frothing at the mouth, and calm him down by giving him some NTSB reports to read.)

OK, ok.. Crashman is better now. And would like to thank the real Big Iron pros on here (not just airlines, all commercial pilots) who - despite their difficult, underpaid lives - are still here taking their valuable time hangar-talkin' for us so we can learn, and encouraging the youngsters- while giving them no illusions. We all know what it is to love flying - Crashman remembers practicing aerobatics from a book at age 7 using a yardstick and a pair of flipped-over sandals for rudder pedals - but something is very wrong with this picture....