Let's Hear it Folks ! You Might be a FR8DOG if......

[CrimsonEclipse]

Knowing if you're a freight Dog is typically hind site. When you do it, it seems
normal. "Circling NDB with one engine out and one on fire, well, at least one is
still running". Years later, you hear FedEx confess that they are really afraid
to do an ILS without a flight director. (a what-what?)

I'm too tired to write more.

CE

 

[CaptainMark]

Years later, you hear FedEx confess that they are really afraid
to do an ILS without a flight director. (a what-what?)

you got that right...no NDBs either....A full ILS or a GPS approach..that's it!

 

[NoPax]

MY buddy from AirNet was complaining to me that his Baron had a crappy HSI, and he had to include the backup VOR indicator into his scan....he soon apologized for complaining about the HSI.

I think if you are scared of ice, thunderstorms, turbulence, heavy rain, snow, pellets, etc, then you are not a freight dawg...if you're prepared to fly in, or around anything, then you are a freight dawg.

Example, we had a guy cancel his entire run on friday night (yeah I know), because of freezing rain in OKC...a freight dog would have looked at the forecast, waited for it to clear in about 2 hours, and then flown in...or come to some other arangement...its about getting the job done.

 

[osu_av8r]

....when you are checked into two different hotel rooms at the same time in different states

 

[TheBaron]

I think if you are scared of ice, thunderstorms, turbulence, heavy rain, snow, pellets, etc, then you are not a freight dawg...if you're prepared to fly in, or around anything, then you are a freight dawg.

I had a healthy respect and fear for ice and thunderstorms when I was starting out in the AeroStar. That doesn't mean I didn't get the job done. The only trip I ever turned down (in 6 1/2 years of Dawging) was into the big ice storm in Montreal in 1998 and nobody was getting anywhere during that.
If you don't fear what the ice and thunderstorms can do to a s/e or light twin, then you will eventually be the subject of one of those NTSB reports everyone reads and says..."What was that poor dumba$$ thinking?" Then all your friends can start a RIP thread and say what a great pilot you were and how bad everyone should feel for your family.

 

[TheBaron]

Before the dream was 3 years of bankcheck hauling..5 legs a night..bur-oak-apa-mdw-bkl-teb and back the next night..i have been in the club for years...

You can still be in the club, you just aren't an active member based on your current job.
Oh...and you haven't paid your dues in a while so just send me the check and I'll make sure it gets into the proper hands.

 

[CaptainMark]

You can still be in the club, you just aren't an active member based on your current job.
Oh...and you haven't paid your dues in a while so just send me the check and I'll make sure it gets into the proper hands.

if you are living the purple dream...my guess is you will be a widebody fo soon..i will hand you the check personally right after you buy my dinner..

 

[TheBaron]

if you are living the purple dream...my guess is you will be a widebody fo soon..i will hand you the check personally right after you buy my dinner..

Next month!
You'll recognize me because I'll be the one at the AOC with the $hit eating grin while I jump seat home; not the tired looking one that's been doing hub turns all week. plus I'll be wearing a black leather jacket...

 

[CaptainMark]

Next month!
You'll recognize me because I'll be the one at the AOC with the $hit eating grin while I jump seat home; not the tired looking one that's been doing hub turns all week. plus I'll be wearing a black leather jacket...

i will be the one driving home at 1130pm..wearing a white shirt with blue pants with a black leather flight kit....

 

[Lostdog65]

....when you are checked into two different hotel rooms at the same time in different states

Either that or you're in the Airtanker business or with USFS aviation!

Eric

 

[ratherbeflyen]

If you've ever spun 360's at the runway hold short line trying to get an angle your antena will transmit to the tower.

If you move to a pax flying job and the instructors always tell you to watch your bank because untill now 45 degrees was a medium bank turn.

If mx tears out more squawk sheets, than they fix.

If you have more written letters of warning than landings in the last month.

If your call sign mysteriously changes to "pathfinder."

If center calls you periodicly and only says "maintain vfr." or "are you vmc?"

If you cancel for icing (they took off the boots and it was a good excuse to get more sleep in a chair) and your "flight followers" wx advice is "The radar is clear."

If you ever had to wait for the courier because they figured there was no way you'd make it and went home.

If you ever got arrested by airport security because you threw freight over the fence at 3 am and they thought you were smuggling something.

If you've ever got in a fight with a line guy for moving your plane around back to make the fbo look more presentable, and your company backs you.

If approach tells you the last three boeings went missed for windsheer and turbulence and your reply "rodger," or approach tells you have to remain vfr in the I 10 corridor (HOU), you cant deviate, and theres a level 4 on that route of flight, "rodger."

If you have no idea what CASS is.

If you ever heard "cleared direct destination, and what will that be?" or "whats your destination?" "wheres that, nevermind cleared direct."

While your IMC on a vector to the ILS you heard the lone guy in the tower say "I got a fire alarm going off. I'm getting outta here, tower is now closed say your intentions."

If you get to your hotel at 7 am and ask the desk clerk if the contiental dinner is complimentary.

If your companys minimums are "If any one asks how you landed just say you had 4 sets of distance markers or could see 9 rows of lights."

If your FO in a 402 paid to be there, or if you've never flown with an FO.

If center says "welcome back" and you didn't know you left.

If you think I'm legal to go direct, class 2 navigation means to the degree required by atc.

If your company reserves a spot on a couch for you at the fbo your going to.

If your first time in the "new" plane your imc trying to figure out which of the 3 vor recievers go to the 2 nav radios.

do you get any extra credit for making a post at 03:04 am?

 

[joe_pilot]

If you ever had to wait for the courier because they figured there was no way you'd make it and went home.

I just have to laugh at that one. Been there. Ahhh, the good ole days.

 

[Lostdog65]

If your FO in a 402 paid to be there.../

Been there...done that. Never again! Guy was an arrogant b@st@rd who thought he knew more about the 402 and my run seeing as how he just got out of ground school and had passed the test. I told him my 1000 hours of 402 time and 2 years on the same run trumps his training. Besides, the first time I let him fly, center cleared him to 7k...he stopped at 6k and argued with not only me but Center that he was at 7k.

I got him off the plane the next week. Threatened to quit.

Eric

 

[Caboclo]

Freightdog’s Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of instructing,
And plowed the skies on ice-laden wings.
Moonward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling turbulence
Of lightning split clouds - and done a hundred things
The Feds have not dreamed of - scud run, busted mins,
Flown handheld, homemade approaches. Yawning there,
I’ve chased the impossible schedule, and flung
My ancient craft through convective sigmets.
Up, up the long over-loaded, over-heating climb,
I’ve topped the MVAs with red-line power,
Where bats and even owls fly,
And while with hypothermic, fatigued mind I’ve trod
The complex, congested New York airspace,
Put out my hand, and touched the de-ice switch.

 

[Lostdog65]

Cab....

That was brilliant. I think I'll print it out and hand it to all the new hires!!!

*credited of course*

Eric

 

[airspeedsalive]

Wow....that was inspired!

 

[doh]

...I get the call from Focus! :beer: imp:

 

[doh]

I got the call from Focus! WOOHOO!

 

[osu_av8r]

The fr8dawg poem brought a tear to my eye. That was beautiful...just beautiful.

 

[TrafficDawg]

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the POS crew car at East Pigknuckle Regional is better than the car you drive at home.