SafetyFirst wrote:Fly'n, you're obviously a first-year and have no idea of how things were run in the past and don't know WHY there are some of the procedures there are, implemented this year. Everyone on this forum have been talking about bad things they don't like about Mount Royal, but yet nobody has mentioned any of the good things. It's like watching an american news channel. All you hear about on TV is bad news, but in reality, there's so much more good things out there. Anyways, as for the uniform issue, it's in place because some students in the past made fools of themselves around the school or when they were out flying on a cross-country. Because they were in the aviation program, they "represented the program", and because they were making a mockery of themselves, it hurt the program in the view of 3rd party observers. Concerning the rule for wearing of proper clothing (and notice I'm talking about a nice business casual shirt, as Mount Royal doesn't have uniforms), again it's a matter of representing the program and having pride. If all the aviation students wore
t-shirts with profane language on it or even just a shirt with jeans, it's unprofessional looking, and seriously, the aviation industry is a small community, and people DO notice. And buddy, the rule for wearing business attire to the gym no longer exists! I don't know if you guys remember, but you all had dress codes back in high school for the same reason. With the aviation program, its only requirements is that you look neat and professional, there's no uniforms.
Yes, I understand that there are reasons for each and every rule that they have there, however I personally don't understand how having every aviation student wearing dress shirts and pants is going to give them a better image. Sure it looks good, but when you see one of the aviation students doing something that could potentially hurt the progrom, you know forsure now that it is an aviation student as there is little to know doubt that it is them since they are quite literally the only people wearing clothes like that. Sure, maybe make us wear it for flying, and even courses like the groundschool, and engines one, but making us wear clothes like that is going to do nothing to how someone behaves. How many programs are there that mount royal offers? and out of that, aviation and nursing are the only ones with formal dress codes in place, and nursing is mostly due to hospital requirements more than anything else. are all the broadcasting, legal studies, engineering, etc students unprofessional just because they wear a T-shirt and jeans? No, professionalism is measured by how you conduct yourself when people are not watching, and how you treat others, no amount of clothing is going to change that... And they re-instated the dress code when going to the gym, it is now at all times when you are on campus, regardless of the reason.
My main complaint about the program wasn't even about the dress code anyways, it was about how utterly retarded scheduling is set up. They could have implemented that way better, like for example letting us book off weekends that we know we can't fly (literally the stupidest rule in the entire program. This is school, we can't commit every waking hour to the program, people have lives and need to get other things done...), allowing more than 1 cancellation per semester, especially when they are booking us and we have no control over when we get booked. Better yet, we could schedule ourselves like everyone did during their PPL, and like most other schools do. If you can't manage your time efficiently enough to get them done on time, it's your own loss...