Cylinder #3 gets a plugged injector and turns into an oil pump, all over the cowling. You only notice because it takes 4 quarts instead of the usual 3 to top-off.
You tell people what you do for a living and they get excited...
You explain further that you fly fr8, and they ask, "do you ever want to be a "real" pilot?
You ever been loaded so far aft, you pushed the yoke full forward while taxiing.
Seen a lear sitting on the mains only after a load job gone bad.
Take your own pilllows to the outstation.
Walked more than one mile to sleep because there is no car and the company wouldn't even think of paying for a taxi.
Have the same airports and flight times six days in a row in your log book.
Have some major malfunction, report it over company radio, and someone else chimes in, "it did that last time". (thanks for nothing, A$$hole)
Ever had a fellow company pilot tell you, "I don't write up the plane because the maintence guy gets mad at me."
1. You not only know, but have used every one of the emergency memory items on your aircraft.
2. You have manually cranked down the gear more than twice.
3. You have actually used the control lock as an inflight windshield deicer.
4. You compare prop spinner ice formations at the end of a run with your buddy.
5. You spend all night playing with the radar because its the first time you actually had one that worked in 6 months.
6. You smoke a cigar, fart, spill coffee, and pick your nose in flight.....and nobody cares.
7. You have gone a month flying around the northeast in winter with no heater.
8. Refer to 7. You actually miss your quilt wrapped around your legs during flight after the heater is fixed.
9. You know all the ATC and ILS frequencies by memory for a 7.5 hour flight time work night.
10. You actually do fly 1100 hours a year.
11. You have ever written up a vibration in the left engine 7 times, maint. responded all 7 times with "ops check ok"
12 See 11. You write the catastrophic engine failure up as "Your ops checks suck"
13. You have 2 destroyed Continental cyclinders in your garage being used as screw holders.....and you do not remember which engine failures that those particular two came from.
14. You get ramp checked by a fed who is concerned about the amount of oil leaking from the right engine, and your response to him is "You should have seen the one I had last night!"
15. You have landed with one feathered at night and didn't even bother to inform ATC because you didn't want to wake up the boys in the firehouse.
16. See 15. The tower never even noticed.
17. You have shot an ILS to minimums with no instrument panel lights by holding a flashlight in your teeth.
Or if you get a call from a AmEx financial advisor, and upon hearing you are a freight dog, he instantly knows you wont be using his services before you can even turn him down
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