Freight Dogs play with fire everyday!

[Bai B Nai]

Article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on flying freight. Kinda makes 'em sound like they're on the very fringes of aviation...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15052101.htm

 

[Murdoughnut]

As a Texas Tech Alum, I thank you for your support!

 

[Way2Broke]

These are popping up all around the country.

 

[coltsfn8888]

Maybe someone from the faa could chime in here. It does seem like these bottom feeder cargo outfits are getting away with a whole lot thats putting the pilots at an unnecessary risk. Why cant the Faa write regulations that are not subject to different interpretations and enforce them before someone kills himself trying to make these scumbags an exta buck. I am not trying to flamebait here I would just like to see the feds do their job before I read one of these articles about a friend of mine.

 

[FN FAL]

Article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on flying freight. Kinda makes 'em sound like they're on the very fringes of aviation...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15052101.htm

I fly for a safe operator, we truly do put safety before schedule. They won't write about that because that is not "news worthy".

Good luck out there freight doggies, there is a way to have "one level of safety" and it starts from within...when your boss pushes you to fly bad planes and bad weather, say "not only no, but fk no!"

 

[ShyFlyGuy]

I fly for a safe operator, we truly do put safety before schedule. They won't write about that because that is not "news worthy".

Good luck out there freight doggies, there is a way to have "one level of safety" and it starts from within...when your boss pushes you to fly bad planes and bad weather, say "not only no, but fk no!"

My name is ShyFlyGuy, and I am a freight dog. It has been 1.5 years since I took my last top-off of 100LL. That being said, I don't think it was so much the weather as it was the maintenance that was or is the issue. It also seems to be a bit of a training issue, as well. I hate to say it, but I did some pretty stupid things (53.3 on the hobbs) with an attitude indicator stuck pointing at 30 degees up and 60 degrees left bank. There is a turn coordinator and directonal gyro, as well as an airspeed indicator and altimiter (and VSI) to help give you the input for that "missing" data off the AI. While training won't help if the elevator flies off or the wing spar snaps, it WILL DEFINATELY turn an erronious AI into a side-note on the MX logs.

What a shame, I'm sorry to hear of anyone taking the final flight.

Peace out, children. And practice your partial panel approaches!

Shy

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

The author of the article, Ronnie Green, has written a bunch of articles on
the air cargo industry. I beleive he works for the Miami Herald. Go to the
Miami Herald website and do a search and you should find several of his
articles.

Most of the info is acurate or at least close... Pretty good compared to most
of the media.

CE

 

[skygirl1968]

here is the whole article in the Miami Herald:
http://www.miami.com/multimedia/miam...ess/index.html

pretty good writing. Ronnie Greene called me for some follow up comments after the feature was published, pretty smart guy. i hope that some of the things mentioned actually get followed up on by the FAA. there are definitely some areas of freight/cargo that need attention. my late husband was a freight dawg, and not that more regulation would have saved him, but going thru what i have and seeing some of what goes on in the freight industry has really opened my eyes to the blatant disregard for pilots that some of these operators have.