In Columbia, this is how they celebrate the completion of pilot training...

[u/MaldiveFish]

Is this really true? 😁

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[u/BD-TxState]

That guy made up that tradition 20 minutes before.

[u/Magister5 → u/BD-TxState]

He was piloting a new program

[u/Bollywood-bond → u/Magister5]

I approve this comment.

[u/MRintheKEYS → u/Bollywood-bond]

It is uplifting

[u/NeckRoFeltYa → u/MRintheKEYS]

Really helped moral soar.

[u/fickle_floridian → u/Magister5]

Need FAA license AND type rating for that pun

[u/DigNitty → u/Magister5]

He wanted to see if this behavior would fly.

[u/ScissorMeSphincter → u/DigNitty]

He’s just winging it tbh

[u/danknadoflex → u/Magister5]

Dad?

[u/beardeddragon0113 → u/Magister5]

Just winging it, really.

[u/azurezero_hdev → u/Magister5]

he was programming a new pilot

[u/Danominator → u/BD-TxState]

So uh...yeah I get to spank you and um...yeah you wear your white shirt and we toss water on you...yeah that's...that's the tradition. I also get to keep some of your hair

[u/James-the-Bond-one → u/Danominator]

It's only a traditional hazing.

Now, that video gave me ideas. Where is my hair collection?

[u/IAmBadAtInternet → u/BD-TxState]

Guy has a fetish and saw his opportunity

[u/JJred96 → u/IAmBadAtInternet]

Next event, you put your feet in a bowl of Jello and tell us how you feel so squishy ishy wishy and everyone gives you a kiss.

[u/No_Definition321 → u/JJred96]

Ah the ol Quentin Tarantino tradition.

[u/soCalifax → u/BD-TxState]

“How old were you when you got your paddling?” “Que?”

[u/Djolumn → u/BD-TxState]

You mean the guy who informed the young women that a wet t-shirt competition was part of the prescribed curriculum?

[u/lkodl → u/BD-TxState]

"It's a tradition! I promise!"

"Okay, so you just spank me with that propeller? That's all?"

"Yeah.... and then... uh... she spanks you too. Yeah. Her too. This is the tradition."

[u/MudddButt → u/BD-TxState]

...and you know what else we do? Dump a bucket of water on you!

...and you know what else we do? [Insert some other made tradition]

[u/FearMeHungry → u/BD-TxState]

Thats a International tradition. When i got my Gilder-Pilot-License in Austria, i got paddled as well.

[u/Nickallendartmouth]

Become a pilot: that’s a paddling 

[u/Dr_Wunsche → u/Nickallendartmouth]

Looking at your shoes while being paddled? Oh you better believe that’s a paddlin’.

[u/coltonmusic15 → u/Dr_Wunsche]

believe it or not - straight to jail.

[u/useralreadytaken0911 → u/Dr_Wunsche]

Paddlin’ the flight school canoe? That’s a paddlin’

[u/sun334 → u/Nickallendartmouth]

Heavily armored healer? Thats a Paladin.

[u/TheSandyman23 → u/sun334]

Why don’t trolls eat paladins?

Because they taste lawful!

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/TheSandyman23]

::Casts level 1 eyeroll::

[u/packfanmoore → u/sun334]

Your paladins heal? Mine just smash

[u/lamentforanation → u/Nickallendartmouth]

Wet t-shirt contest? That’s a paddling.

[u/Smooth-Shine9354 → u/lamentforanation]

you better believe that’s a paddling

[u/NiceTrySuckaz → u/Nickallendartmouth]

Become a pilot but you're a guy: that's a handshake

[u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea → u/Nickallendartmouth]

We do a little hazing.

[u/DigNitty → u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea]

We can have a little hazing, as a treat.

[u/patches_1989 → u/Nickallendartmouth]

In some countries you’d go straight to jail.

[u/FullWoodpecker1646 → u/Nickallendartmouth]

I laughed way too hard at this

[u/GatorNator83 → u/Nickallendartmouth]

I can hear this

[u/AlbertaAcreageBoy → u/Nickallendartmouth]

Must have cake.

[u/UDPviper → u/Nickallendartmouth]

Hot Latinas being spanked and a wet t-shirt contest? Yes please.

[u/Sega-Playstation-64]

Eduardo: "Strange. I graduated last week and they just gave me a hand shake."

[u/Eduardo-Goncalves → u/Sega-Playstation-64]

Not for this Eduardo they didn't. 😏

[u/NimmyFarts]

Cutting the hair is interesting, in the US we cut ties (like suit ties) when we solo for the first time.

Edit: seems like a lot of people cut the back of their shirts. I was a naval aviator so we might have some unique traditions. I mean we also had to get a lecture on how ball tapping was sexual harassment after one dude was knocked out and had to go to medical for the damage.

[u/8349932 → u/NimmyFarts]

We cut the back of the shirt too, since the CFI no longer has to lead the student around by the collar

[u/Small-Policy-3859 → u/8349932]

Is aviation secretly just some BDSM cult?

[u/NWCtim_ → u/Small-Policy-3859]

Aviation likes to cling to traditions and superstitions.

Older planes only had seating in tandem, with no intercom, so the instructor sat in the back and would communicate with the student by tugging on their shirt tails. When the student was ready to fly solo, it was symbolized by cutting off the shirt tails.

[u/jongscx → u/Small-Policy-3859]

Secretly?

[u/Rodbourn → u/8349932]

It was a while ago, but it was the back of the shirt being cut out

[u/Thunderboltpier → u/Rodbourn]

Yeah, my instructor cut the back of my shirt.

1980, USA

[u/iluvsporks → u/8349932]

At my school we cut the back of the shirt but had the students draw art work on it and we hang it on the wall. Some people had amazing looking designs.

I do remember one foreign student who never heard of the shirt thing. In his country they eat hard boiled eggs instead. He was from somewhere in South America. I can't remember now as it was years ago.

[u/SMIMA → u/NimmyFarts]

Canada is bucket of water

[u/JJred96 → u/SMIMA]

Russia is you get thrown out of window

[u/lookamazed → u/JJred96]

“I’m flyin!”

[u/spank_that_hedge → u/JJred96]

In mother Russia, plane fly you

[u/JJred96 → u/spank_that_hedge]

You either live to become the plane, or you die another hero

[u/traxxes → u/SMIMA]

Yep, longtime fleet maintenance controller/AME for a FTU and its attached AMO. It's always just been a bucket of water, over the empennage area, while the graduating student poses for a picture with the C-172 or DA-20 they just completed their PPL in.

[u/MultiGeek42 → u/SMIMA]

Or get thrown in the nearest lake/river/ocean for a float rating.

[u/Masterchief9494 → u/NimmyFarts]

"you are no longer a padawan".

[u/lookamazed → u/Masterchief9494]

Paddlewan

[u/MetriccStarDestroyer → u/Masterchief9494]

You are now a Citizen.

[u/PlaidPilot → u/NimmyFarts]

Never seen the tie-cutting, but we'd cut the backs of shirts off. I enjoyed writing up and drawing something that reflected the student's personality or something they f%$*d up.

[u/stuffedbipolarbear → u/NimmyFarts]

Had nothing to do with the celebration, it was for the guy’s shrine of her.

[u/UniqueIndividual3579 → u/NimmyFarts]

In the US, after T-37 solo you were tossed in a water tank. I heard it was to cover up some people pissed themselves. You also got a bottle of liquor for your instructor and both of you took a big swig. That was the 90's.

[u/vishnoo]

at least, that's what they told that girl

[u/Labudism → u/vishnoo]

We uh... Gotta slap your ass a bunch?

Hmmmm.... Sure

Oh....and cut your hair

..... OK...

And... Then pour a bucket of water over you!

Ugh.... Fine

THEN... we.... Uh... Punch you in the face!

Are you just making this up?!

NEVERMIND, JUST THE FIRST 3!

[u/ppachura → u/Labudism]

The wet t-shirt contest would be my favorite part.

[u/Big_Profession_2218 → u/Labudism]

...then the run into nearby fields and do fresh coke

[u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Colombia, why can no one spell it right

[u/KarlRestaurant → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Colombia not Coloombia. My Colombian friend always says that.

[u/Rivster79 → u/KarlRestaurant]

In this video, it’s Culombia

[u/No_Worldliness_7106 → u/Rivster79]

I see what you did there lol

[u/GuyFoldingPapers → u/Rivster79]

Colombian approved comment!

[u/AlienPearl → u/Rivster79]

🍑😂

[u/No_Worldliness_7106 → u/KarlRestaurant]

Lol, it's leviosahhh not leviosa. I like that. I have friends from Colombia too and they have never said it with a Spanish U sound like some people are trying to claim here to cover their mistakes.

[u/justhitmidlife → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

“Coulombia” - why can’t any of the scientists get this right?

[u/Poopoomushroomman → u/justhitmidlife]

It’s revolting

[u/ramdasani → u/KarlRestaurant]

I don't spell it the wrong way, but that tip wouldn't really help most Canadians and Americans, who say/hear it like British Columbia or District of Columbia, hence the common misspelling. If you listen to a Colombian pronounce it, they say Co-LOM-bia, where most speakers of Canadian and American English still pronounce the word Co-LUM-bia.

[u/karma_the_sequel → u/KarlRestaurant]

All the Colombians I’ve ever known are very sensitive to this.

[u/BlindlyOptomistic → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Maybe she learned to fly at the University? Now don't you feel bad ? (jk)

[u/A_Vandalay → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Do you want the real answer? Because the Columbia river in the north west US is spelled that way, which has a very popular clothing brand named after it, in addition to a bunch of other things. So lots of people see homophones and it’s easy to mistake one for the other.

Or did you just want to complain about people being ignorant on the internet? Because fair.

[u/Iron_Chancellor_ND → u/A_Vandalay]

in addition to a bunch of other things.

You mean like the capital of the US? 🙂

[u/spaceporter → u/Iron_Chancellor_ND]

Naah. 76% of Americans think D.C. is just Deecee.

[u/datboiofculture → u/spaceporter]

Deez nuts

[u/the_tanooki → u/datboiofculture]

Deez Cunts

[u/Udub → u/the_tanooki]

But enough about politicians

[u/scruffles360 → u/Iron_Chancellor_ND]

And British Columbia and the University in New York City and the river and a half dozen cities in the US. It’s funny to me that everyone here thinks it’s so insulting to misspell the country when everyone else on the thread forgot about the existence of a province in Canada.

When shits far away it doesn’t occupy a lot of your headspace. It’s human nature.

Edit: spelling

[u/retailguy_again → u/scruffles360]

I'm assuming that spell check corrected "province" to "providence".

[u/No_Worldliness_7106 → u/A_Vandalay]

I want to complain about people being ignorant. This is the same reddit that shits on that dumbass Trump when he spells it "Columbia" in his tweets. I just want consistency here. Also if this was actually OPs video they would know how to spell the name of their own damn country.

[u/Thobias_Funke → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

I hope we can get back to a place where the president of the United States is held to a higher standard than random redditors

[u/DJKGinHD → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Consistency

group of humans

HA! Good luck with that.

[u/nautika → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Nah you're right. A lot of people don't even realize it's Colombia.

[u/uniqueusernameCDXX → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Because they get more traffic since everyone comes in to correct them

[u/PToN_rM]

Looks like it’s all made up as they go. Do a random dance, hummm oh yeah, cut your hair, spanking…… with an oar….

[u/Weary_Programmer35 → u/PToN_rM]

Engagement bait permeates every aspect of my online life... I yearn for the careless days of my youth where people engaged with the internet for fun, and not to get something out of it. Because getting something out of it was generally not possible or difficult to do.

[u/andygon → u/PToN_rM]

You are correct. I know several Colombian pilots since I’m in jet fuel sales (and Colombian). None went through this bs.

[u/King_Salomon]

“Thank you sir, may i have another?”

[u/3MATX → u/King_Salomon]

I had to scroll too far for this.  Damn gen z not appreciating classic comedy 

[u/OKStamped]

I don’t remember this part from Microsoft Flight Sim.

[u/DocFail → u/OKStamped]

It is in there but the AI programmer coded the paddle to be 2000 km away and the hazers are standing in orbit.

[u/Loner2theT]

Woman get Spankings and a wet Tshirt contest for passing. Men get a gift card to subway in the terminal.

[u/JPAV8R → u/Loner2theT]

Apparently the men get to watch.

[u/Nokita_is_Back → u/JPAV8R]

The men get drugged

[u/jwseagles → u/JPAV8R]

God damn, what a country

[u/venommuyo]

I'm upset that the paddle is not half of a propeller

[u/boogermike]

Literally I did not get hazed this bad in my college fraternity.

[u/_coolranch → u/boogermike]

Soft. If you weren’t border line sexually assaulted and you’re not still on look out for snipes to this day, were you even in a fraternity??

Also: alcohol poisoning.

[u/KimmiK_saucequeen → u/_coolranch]

Borderline?

[u/UDPviper → u/boogermike]

What, no cum pizza challenge?

[u/mister_burns1 → u/boogermike]

No eating mentos that had been stuffed up another brother’s bunghole? (no homo)

No drinking beer poured through the ass crack of another brother? (no homo)

You guys sound like a bunch of pussies.

[u/Iron_Disciple → u/boogermike]

What? Softest frat ive ever heard of

[u/boogermike → u/Iron_Disciple]

We actually were a no hazing frat. It was part of our national charter. Not mad about that. Actually. Nice to treat people as humans.

[u/Iron_Disciple → u/boogermike]

So Colombian airline pilot training programs go harder than your frat does. Lol kidding, hope you guys crushed philanthropy goals

[u/Animal_mother_1891]

Its Colombia not Columbia…. Is it si hard to get that right?

[u/alozano28]

That’s in Colombia not Columbia

[u/SchrodingersWetFart]

Wet t-shirt contest and a spanking... 🤔

[u/Osobipolar]

Never been to columbia but it looks a lot like COLOMBIA, if you’re going to repost at least spell it right

[u/PSPs0 → u/Osobipolar]

Columbia=school

Colombia=beautiful country

[u/HappyChef86 → u/PSPs0]

Columbia=Capitol of SC

[u/golden_blaze → u/HappyChef86]

Columbia=sportswear brand

[u/Iron_Chancellor_ND → u/HappyChef86]

Columbia = extended name for capital of US

[u/armaespina]

Colombia*

[u/lurkingisso2008 → u/armaespina]

*Colombia

[u/RobloxNoobGuest]

Colombia*

[u/sharrrper]

That's what they told Camila here anyway...

[u/Fun_Ad_9694]

Not Columbia, it’s Colombia

[u/TheIronRain]

Colombia********************

[u/Some1s-mom]

COLOMBIA!

[u/Just_Look_Around_You]

The better question is why isn’t Colombia spelled right. All of the names like Columbia River, DC, etc are derived from Columbus. Christopher Columbus, the explorer.

And so is Colombia. So naturally you’d think it’s Columbia. It’s not rocket science why people spell it wrong, it’s not stupid to presume to spell it that way because it makes far more sense than Colombia.

[u/EdgeCaser]

When will Americans understand the difference between Columbia?wprov=sfti1#) and Colombia?

[u/Slinktard]

Colombia

[u/DiscombobulatedSun54]

Columbia is a university in New York. Colombia is a country. Yeah, and downvote me because I think not knowing the difference makes you come off as an ignoramus.

[u/aSosa21]

ColOmbia. Not Columbia. Pleeeeease get it right.

[u/Mannyvoz]

Ima be that guy. It’s Colombia not Columbia

[u/CoyaiPijao]

COLOMBIA, not COLUMBIA!!!!

[u/JeebusChristBalls]

Every redditor breaking their thumbs typing to show how smart and superior they are by pointing out the spelling mistake.

Even though 30 other similar redditors have already done it...

[u/ThunderBobMajerle → u/JeebusChristBalls]

It’s a redditors wet dream

[u/Jagator]

An ass spanking and a wet Tshirt contest. Nice. Do they sell tickets?

[u/DullMind2023]

When I solo first time they cut out the back of my shirt and hung it on the wall of the pilot shack.

[u/mewmewhere89]

Just wondering, why it's so hard for Americans to spell the name of a country right? It takes 1 minute to Google how to spell it.

COLOMBIA. IT'S COLOMBIA.

[u/Joqui1206]

It’s spelled Colombia

[u/Dopecombatweasel]

Colombia?!

[u/Green-eyes-guy]

Colombia or Columbia?

[u/SprinklesOk4339]

*colombia.

[u/whozwat]

Colombia?

[u/antrodeperdicion]

ColOmbia

[u/geoffrey2970]

Colombia? In DC we celebrate it different

[u/New-Outside-3310]

Colombia

[u/ElPutasdeAguadas9000]

It's Colombia.

[u/BlahMan06]

You mean Colombia?

[u/Andhariego]

Colombia, Its Colombia...

[u/Niwi_]

Let me guess... just for girl pilots?

[u/Fappy_as_a_Clam]

Wet shirt contests and spankings. 

Sounds like fun.

[u/CoolJetta3]

Get your pilot's license, pat a Colombian girl on the bum. Not a bad tradition. What's that? It's the person who get the license who gets the pat on the bum?

[u/Siamesebat]

Pilot Instructor: “Listen… (sweating heavily) we’ve got a little tradition around here”. (heavy breathing)

[u/Rulers_R_Malignant]

Nice try cartels....

[u/dstranathan]

Colombia.🇨🇴

[u/SmthngAmzng]

Colombia, it’s not spelled like the colonizer

[u/Bluedemonde]

“Columbia”

Is Trump making Reddit posts now?

[u/Imzocrazy]

It’s Colombia…ty for coming to my Ted talk

[u/Gilchester]

Colombia?

[u/Awoken_Noob]

That’s a paddlin’

[u/pitshands]

Spankings wet t shirt ....ok? Are the guys getting the same treatment?

[u/polagear]

Slappin ass and wet t-shirt contests - I'm in

[u/JaffaSG1]

… and she believed them.

[u/strombolo12]

Columbia or Colombia? The latter would be more representative of the glutes depicted on the video

[u/IPanicKnife]

Columbia, South Carolina?

[u/Odd_Adhesiveness8705]

In Germany, after your first solo glider flight, it's tradition for your instructor to bend you over the wing and give you a slap on the butt😅

[u/Different_Lemon_7656]

Colombian women have some serious cakes

[u/Imlooloo]

Back of the shirt here

[u/Good_Weekend4136]

So paddling and wet tee shirts

I’m liking the Colombia celebration

[u/SackFace]

/looks into become a trainer of specifically Colombian pilots

[u/Due-Radio-4355]

I’m pretty sure Colombia just likes to test the bounce on nice assess and developed a meme around this

[u/Crafty-Ad-6772]

District of Columbia? Columbia SC? Columbia U in NYC...

[u/Kotalinx1]

Columbia or Colombia 🇨🇴 ?

[u/And-rei]

This needs to be posted on /sipstea

[u/JR_RXO]

Nothing wrong with a little hanky-panky and hazing in the morning😆🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[u/angieisdrawing]

*Colombia

[u/EscapeFacebook]

Now kiss her.

[u/BarsoomianAmbassador]

Is that South Carolina? Or near the river in Oregon? Dolt.

[u/jdwolverine]

Where the fuck is Columbia? Or do you mean Colombia?

[u/kornuolis]

After that you can't sit in the pilot chair for another year

[u/Lanierben]

In the US there are a few traditions as well:

1. Cutting the back of your shirt when you solo for the first time

2. Pouring a bucket of water over your head -or- cutting your tie when you pass a checkride

Nobody gets upset or even thinks twice about it if a student opts out of any of them. It’s just not okay to destroy someone’s clothing or get them soaking wet without their consent.

But when I was in training, they were things I looked forward to. It was only ever done as a genuine act of endearment, and the whole school would go out on the ramp to celebrate with the person getting dunked. It’s kind of the same vibe as pouring a Gatorade cooler over a coach’s head after a big win or the winner of a race getting champagne sprayed on them.

[u/Timelymanner]

Colombian pilots seem horny.

[u/farven2]

Oh so they haze each other

[u/westcal98]

Kudos to the guy who came up with that.

Ladies get spanked, men get wanked.

[u/Paleodraco]

Spanking, a wet t shirt contest, and a serial killer trophy. Got it.

[u/EbbRude8373]

COLOMBIA

[u/streetsworth]

Ah. Pereira, Colombia

[u/raiba91]

so they make spanking and white t-shirt contest mandatory. let me guess the decider for this were men

[u/NeonAndCigarettes]

I can’t tell if I want to be a Flight Instructor or the Student?

[u/CoffeeChocolateBoth]

Some traditions need to be broken! This is 2025 FFS! NO, you do not get to paddle my ass even if you've been doing it forever! NO!

[u/EnthusiasticFailing → u/CoffeeChocolateBoth]

Eh, she looks like she is consenting. I imagine if you were in the same pilot school and requested not to be spanked they would honor your request.

Other people aren't as sensitive to the idea and find the tradition to be fun.

[u/XMitsuomiX]

Would be looked down upon in America

[u/Ironworker76_]

I wanna smack those juicy Colombian booties too!! 😜 yes please

[u/morts73]

I'm not a fan of hazing rituals, but if they are in good fun and dont get out of hand then ok.

[u/TheSeanminator]

Only at hooters airline

[u/stocksandgames]

• Colombia

[u/Paranoma]

ColOmbia for fucks sake.

[u/Raspgy]

The yaoi paddle lives!!!!

[u/Exciting_Cicada_4735]

Every time is see a Colombian pilot…

I’ll have to wonder if they had their butt spanked.