Epulettes.... Where to get them?

SixPapaCharlie

SixPapaCharlie

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So my work is a place where we are highly encouraged to dress up for Halloween.
This drives my freakishly high social anxiety meter to a level of major discomfort bordering on panic.

Easiest way I can find to handle this is grab a headset, white shirt, tie, and be a pilot.
Where would one find eppulettes (I don't care how it is spelled anymore) like on the fly (plane pun)?

I have a wings pin and a couple other accessories that can be easily stowed in my pockets for leaving and arriving at the office. The shoulder stripes (as they will be called hereforward) would be a simple touch I think.
 
I'll sell ya my old ones! Yeah Sportys and just about any pilot supply place online.
 
Come to think of it I have a few too, but I don't believe there is an equivalent civil aviation rank of SGT E5.
 
Yeah I have some old USAF master sergeant ones....somewhere.
 
Not to increase your anxiety, but Halloween is tomorrow. You need your costume by 9am.

You're going to have to make them. Which won't be hard. Here's how:
Get some black duct tape and yellow electrical tape.

Carefully cut the black duct tape in the correct shape.
Have Mrs. 6PC carefully install the epaulets onto your shoulders.
(In fact, it's probably better if she uses the scissors instead of you. No running!)

Then, cut strips of the yellow electrical tape.
Sorry - then, nicely ask Mrs. 6PC to cut strips of the yellow electrical tape.
Put the yellow tape on top of the black tape.
Voila!

Extra points for creativity and handmade effort!
 
If you really want to throw them for a loop, wear shoulder boards instead.
 
You also need a goofy hat, although I'm not sure how that would work with the headset.
 
Don't forget a dark colored tie that's had so much coffee and food spilled on it over the years you could dunk it in hot water and create a survival ration. You never take it to the dry cleaners because it costs more to get it cleaned than buy a new one. You just never seem to get around to getting a new one though.
 
Art VanDelay said:
Don't forget a dark colored tie that's had so much coffee and food spilled on it over the years you could dunk it in hot water and create a survival ration. You never take it to the dry cleaners because it costs more to get it cleaned than buy a new one. You just never seem to get around to getting a new one though.
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Yup what he said! :yeahthat:
 
Carry your metal landing calculator with you, that is what separates the good pilots from the pudknockers.

Another item is the cheap "Roy-Band" sunglasses. No one will notice they aren't the real thing.
 
Do they sell any with five stripes? ;)
 
You need to take your three ex wives as well. It is the little things that make you look authentic.

If you just show up with a headset, tie, stripes and cheap shoes then you look like a flight instructor.
Show up drunk and wearing a Rolex that your three ex wives didn't get , well now you are a real jet pilot.
 
There must be a local drunk pilot you can steal them from. Replace his with beer bottle caps and then compliment him on his epullettes.
 
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add in some empty mini booze bottles from the drink cart a Skywest/American Eagke tag and your "cleared for takeoff"
 
One doesn't purchase epaulets. One has epaulets bestowed upon him when one becomes a pilot's pilot.

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Or, you could just buy some for Halloween from Sporty's.
 
Matthew said:
One doesn't purchase epaulets. One has epaulets bestowed upon him when one becomes a pilot's pilot.

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Or, you could just buy some for Halloween from Sporty's.
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I did not receive any when I got my PP-ASEL. Did I miss out?
 
Get em tattoed on. Leave shirt at home. Or take it to the next level and have "pull here in emergency," or whatever the ell the chute handle thingy says, tatooed in a stragetic location. Leave pants at home
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
And how to spell it?

So my work is a place where we are highly encouraged to dress up for Halloween.
This drives my freakishly high social anxiety meter to a level of major discomfort bordering on panic.

Easiest way I can find to handle this is grab a headset, white shirt, tie, and be a pilot.
Where would one find eppulettes (I don't care how it is spelled anymore) like on the fly (plane pun)?

I have a wings pin and a couple other accessories that can be easily stowed in my pockets for leaving and arriving at the office. The shoulder stripes (as they will be called hereforward) would be a simple touch I think.
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Don't all those Chinese kids giving your tower heart attacks have a spare pair? Just wait for one to come in sniffin for a chocochip and sucker punch him.....and take his cookie too of course.
 
Unit74 said:
Don't all those Chinese kids giving your tower heart attacks have a spare pair? Just wait for one to come in sniffin for a chocochip and sucker punch him.....and take his cookie too of course.
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They all wear them man.
They are bused in early in the morning and back to their apartments in the evening.
Looks like a bunch of miniature (because they are young not because they are Asian) first officers swarming the place.
 
Darn. Too late to this thread. I coulda sent you a pair of three striped ones. Or just given up a pair of my four striped ones. Oh well.
 
Cirrus drivers pretending to be pilots, that's so weird. No it's not.


I kid, 6er, I kid. I pretended to be a pilot twice this weekend.
 
Found this for 9 bucks at party city. Should getthethe job done.
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Get the pilot outfit -- add a really dark set of sunglasses and a white cane. If you can borrow ATF's puppy, that's even better. Works to clear out the terminal every time!
 
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