Friday the Thirteenth

Pilots!

As in most professions that are considered to be relatively high-risk and require utmost responsibility, aviation specialists have some prejudices that might seem odd to the rest of mankind.

For instance, scratching a fuselage on a course of the plane is believed to make it more durable and warrant performance regularity. If during the flight pilots encounter another airplane flying from an opposite direction, they consider it to be a bad sign. However, if there is an aircraft flying alongside towards the same direction, they take it as a good luck sign.

One of the most commonly spread superstitions – pilots never take a photo of themselves in front of an aircraft prior to the flight. Another popular practice is when pilots smoke half-cigarettes before and finish smoking them after the flight. If a pilot happens to be a non-smoker, than he may take a bite of something and eat it up after the flight.

And, of course, there are pilots who pee on a wheel to show that they have mastered the aircraft. In any case, aviation unlike any other profession has its own traditions and beliefs which were, are and will always be practiced, regardless of whether you are a superstitious person in general or not.

Yet, there is no such a thing as bad luck in World of Warplanes: flight conditions are always favourable and every pilot is certainly out of the harm’s way.

To prove your superstitions wrong the Community Team will:

• Accept into Global Alpha Test those of you who have been waiting since 23 February, almost lost hope and whose applications have fulfilled our criteria but have fallen a little short of the highest possible mark
• All forum users with more than 100 posts, who have negative ratings and with no bans, will have their ratings upped to +1

You don’t need your rabbit foot in World of Warplanes, but do keep your fingers crossed to become our test-pilots!