freight dog

[fokkers&beer]

I just tell them I do drywall. The problem is solved and all of the sudden nobody cares. Well come to think of it no one cares anyway, except for maybe my golden retriever. But then hes logged more Cessna 182 time then most private pilots.

 

[gearjockey]

"So, do you think you might want to fly commercial someday"?

Just wear the freightdog shirt then they'll understand. I wish they had more

XL in black btw.

 

[Lostdog65]

Do you sleep in the back of your plane on the ramp...when it's near or below freezing...while the G4's apu has been running all night...because you don't make enough to even split an apartment with the other dawgs and if you got one, you'd have to buy a .357 to make it from the parking lot to your door...because the FBO says the shower and beds are for pilots who fly the "big planes"....

Then yeah...you could call yerself a freight dawg...

Eric
Been there, done that, waitin' on the t-shirt!

 

[Waldom]

I just tell 'em I haul freight. What comes to most minds is a semi-truck moving through the night. That visual is pretty close to the the truth and cuts down on poorly thought out questions that usually follow.

 

[EatSleepFly]

Do you sleep in the back of your plane on the ramp...

Oh man, I can't count the number of times I slept in the back of the planes at my last job. Hard to sleep at places like YIP, CYHM, or the other big freight dog haunts, though. Good times! :nuts:

 

[rubicon789]

Then say "and no, I don't want to be a commercial pilot someday"

I hate it when people ask that stupid question. Then you have to explain the entire thing about how the "commercial" is a license that any idot can get. I stopped telling people because they just don't understand.

 

[FR8dognit]

When I flew Freight and people asked what I did I would say I work in air conditioning repair. It said "Cherry Air" right there on my polo style shirt and I had Jeans and steel-toed work boots on. Then they walk away and whisper to their friend about how you smell like burnt oil and mildew.

 

[pgcfii2002]

"So, do you think you might want to fly commercial someday"?

Just wear the freightdog shirt then they'll understand. I wish they had more

XL in black btw.

OH PLEASE REMOVE THAT AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pgcfii2002]

When I flew Freight and people asked what I did I would say I work in air conditioning repair. It said "Cherry Air" right there on my polo style shirt and I had Jeans and steel-toed work boots on. Then they walk away and whisper to their friend about how you smell like burnt oil and mildew.

HA....I am going to tell people I neuter small animals.

 

[T-Storm Chaser]

"So, do you think you might want to fly commercial someday"?

I used to get that all the time when I flew freight. I also got the variant "So when are you gonna fly the real airplanes?" Come to think of it, i still get that one now and I fly for a regional(ashamed to say I went down that road). People just don't understand that flying freight was the last real flying gig that I have had. Now I just feed bananas to the monkey pushing the buttons. I just tell people that I am a bus driver. Almost the truth. Some people are still interested after that. Screw the rest.