101+ Things To Do When You Can't Fly

[jarhead]

Peace Bro.....may the force be with you!

 

[Metro752]

70. Patrol the moving walkways for good looking girls
71. Raid the "ovens" if you are really that hungry
72. get a job with the TSA
73. wash a plane for food
74. offer to fly with an older guy ( i mean like late 70s+)
75. instruct the moron lineman at the local GA airports on the finer points of not spilling 3 or 4 gallons of fuel, and then charging you for it!!!

 

[minitour]

76. Read the FAR/AIM over and over to try to figure out how to log flight time for Reason No. 68...

 

[$$$4nothin]

Aileron Girl

77. Figure out how to get Aileron Girl to Marry you.
Any girl who loves to fly and drink beer as much as me has to love doing the one other thing that pilots always think about. Thats my kinda girl

 

[minitour]

78. Spend 18 hours a day trying to find out "Where's Waldo?"
79. Spend the other 6 hours a day debating the differences in time travel opinion between Mr. Spock, Lt. Cmdr. Data, and Doctor Emmett Brown.

 

[MQAAord]

80. Sell my car
81. Seriously consider selling the 2500sq' mansion we call home because we'll no longer be able to afford the taxes and move closer to husband's base so he doesn't have to commute any more.
82. Wonder why the h#ll I ran off and joined the airlines in the first place.

Sadly, all of these we have done since my second furlough two years ago.

but on a lighter note you can:

83. Get used to waking up in the same place everyday
84. Wake up at 3am, think about the poor shmucks doing the all-nighters, and roll over and go back to sleep.
85. Never ever EVER have to look at blue water in a toilet again!

 

[MQAAord]

Oh, and I forgot

86. Answer your phone and know that it's not crew scheduling!

 

[Gatorman]

87. Wake up at 5:30 am, look at your alarm clock, smile, roll over and go back to sleep.

88. Not have to worry about being pressured by your boss to locate parts for an aircraft that do not exist anyway.

89. The only traffic you have to deal with is when the dog is drinking out of the toilet.

 

[JediNein]

90. Wake up at noon because the phone rang. Disconnect the phone, smile, and go back to sleep.

 

[minitour]

91. Begin your endeavor to discover the answer to the age old question:


Chicken or Egg?

 

[Flyingdutchman]

-92 sign in for elimidate (www.elimidate.com)

 

[Sarka]

93 - Search for the end of the Internet.

 

[Flyingdutchman]

94 - counting contrails

 

[Wankel7]

95 - Visit all those girls in every city

If 95 fails you.... see 96

96 - Become sole manipulator of the controls

 

[JRSLim]

-92 sign in for elimidate (www.elimidate.com)[/QUOTE]


The Horror......the Horror........

.......Oh, how about=>

#94, watch Apocalypse Now....again

 

[Flyingdutchman]

JR,

Are you based at COS?

 

[JRSLim]

JR,

Are you based at COS?

Why yes, yes I am in the Springs - actually a native son of Pikes Peak ; )

 

[upallnight]

#95 Find an online study site, pass the MCAT, Go to medical school and forget this flying shinizzle!

#96 Wait for the test results by consuming Sam Adams in some dive bar frequented by furloughed types talking about the good old days when men were men and CRM stood for........"What the hell is CRM?!"

 

[skydrvr]

97. Start buying shampoo and soap again.
98. Break it off with the mistresses.
99. Stop filing grievences.
100. Stop fighting with scheduling.
101. Put the contract away.
102. RELAX!