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

[Tug Driver]

classic

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

If you have no idea what CASS is.

Um....seriously....what is that.

CE

 

[shortbus driver]

heres a new one for me

When the standard procedure to an airport is...

Shoot the ILS down to circling mins...after you pass a large hill on the left hang a left...fly until you see the river...follow that 20 miles and then right next to another hill is a dirt "drive way" or what looks like one...yeah land a kingair on that...

 

[belchfire]

cabo-

That was possibly the best post anyone has ever made here.

Only one question. Did you actually expect the de-ice to
work?

Hehehehe

 

[Starcheck]

When you get your "10 hours rest" sitting in the FBO in Laredo waiting for the freight, and when it arrives you find out the company has plans for you for the next 14 hours,

Flying a Navajo, and your right alternator belt breaks, so rather than pull the prop and replace the belt, the boss just pulls the alternator off.

Center asks how the ride is, and you've been getting the crap beat out of you for 20 minutes, and you tell them "it's the worst turbulence I've ever been in", and 2 pax airliners turn around. No questions asked.

 

[momalley81]

When you're more comfortable reading your book while hand flying in actual than in clear skies, since there's less likely to be someone to run into when you're in a cloud.

 

[Lostdog65]

When the standard procedure to an airport is...

Shoot the ILS down to circling mins...after you pass a large hill on the left hang a left...fly until you see the river...follow that 20 miles and then right next to another hill is a dirt "drive way" or what looks like one...yeah land a kingair on that...

Kinda sounds like our daily run to 1O5 (Montague/Yreka)...

Shoot the NDB to Circling Mins (the only one there is!), turn left and follow the railroad tracks to the town of Montague, watch out for the big hill on the left, the airport is on the west side of the little hill on your right. Enter a left base for Rwy 14 cause the winds will be 140 at 20G30! Land your iced up 402 on a 2700 foot strip, grab the crew car (which has been "profiled" as a drug runner mobile...personal experience here) and head out to The Black Bear Diner for grub! (Or eat a frozen burrito from the fridge at Shasta Valley Aviation...Dave and Christine are good peoples!)

Departures are even more fun...thank God for Uncontrolled airspace to 10,000 a mere 2 miles away!

Eric

 

[lowtimedriver]

i just flew an afternoon trip to LAX with a 60hr layover in Manhattan Beach...and flew the one leg back a couple mornings later..both legs catered...am i a freightdawg?

post removed after deep circumspection, I determined that I have no business posting here. What was I thinking?

 

[pilotyip]

One of the real wonders of being a frg8t dawg, it when you do get your dream job at SWA, JB, Airtran, or NetJets, you think you have died and gone to haven. You can not understand why people complain in a perfect job?

 

[Lostdog65]

One of our pilots left freight-dawging for a gig with Skywest. His Captain let him fly the ILS into SMF one day. He reached over and flicked off the autopilot and started to hand fly. She went ballistic and asked him what he was doing? He said he'd been to this airport a million times and could do it in his sleep. She admitted he flew the ILS better than "Otto" did. For the longest time he couldn't understand what the big deal was hand flying an ILS???

(All the autopilots were removed from our 402's as soon as they broke!)

Eric

 

[brokeflyer]

You get home from flying all night just in time for the kids to wake up so you can babysit them until your flight leaves later that night.

 

[1flier]

You might be a Freight Dog if....

When Southwest tells approach they will hold while waiting to see if the guy in the 210 behind them makes it in since the Cat 2 is not available. Then you definately are a freight dog for FLX.


Standard 210 cockpit:
GPS (on back order)
Stormscope( permanently removed)
Autopilot (you are so funny)
DME (if dispatch likes you)
LORAN (we do it old school, its for nostaglia)

Freight Dog math: 2 VORs + 1 ADF in Cessna 210 = 1 highly religious pilot with the almighty on speed dial

All jokes aside as a former freight dog and possibly returning, its most likely the hardest but most interesting flying you can do, no autopilot, no copilot, flying in weather no one else will in a POS barely held together. Plus boxes don't B$%^h

 

[timeless]

If you were tempted to request a lower altitude so your Ipod would start working again.

 

[mnixon]

I didn't know altitude affected the IPOD's

 

[Wankel7]

I didn't know altitude affected the IPOD's

+1 ?

 

[SXMp2c]

Autopilot? is that when you rig the gust lock over the yoke to hold it in place while playing "battleship" with your roomate on CO freq (130.65) at 1am over the everglades at 1500ft?

 

[mnixon]

I know mine worked at 17,000 unpressurized.

 

[timeless]

My Ipod froze up after about 20 minutes at FL190. Another thread explained why this happened and stated that apple rates them up to 10,000 ft. Mine works well up to about 17,000 feet.

You might be a freight dog if.....

You've seen another companys falcon do a u-turn on the ramp because there were feds looking at your plane.

You know which hotel in Laredo gives you free hotdogs, beer and nachos.

 

[mnixon]

Buddy flyin into SAV, on a LOW downwind, saw the fed lear and assorted individuals on the Sig ramp, mysteriously had to divert.

 

[huh]

when the controller asks what your descent rate is and you reply "I don't know, the gauge only goes to 10,000 ft/min"