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

[belchfire]

Your company had a standardized fleet...till they got their second plane!

 

[bustinmins]

You ask Ft. Worth Center where the "thin" part of the squall line is located.

You have ever asked for a block of altitude.

You write up the DME and MX removes it.

You have ever lost your turn coordinator, radar and heater in the same flight.

Your chief pilot asks you if you know the difference between a logbook and an insurance form?

You keep an extra large Snickers duct-taped to a extra large Mountain Dew bottle. You do so for those "just in case" instances when the weather is good and you're tired.

After landing, the folks at the FBO said, "Sure looks awful low out there." You reply, "Yep, right at minimums."

You have ever used a AM Radio station for navigation.

Your company motto among the pilots is: "Don't be late, penetrate!"

Fifteen of your fellow pilots quit with three days notice to work for Eagle.

 

[Lostdog65]

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.

LOL!!

Did this for 4 years as a freightdawg!

Eric

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

"Death before Delay"

CE

 

[pilotyip]

You show up at an airport, it is the middle of the night, it is dark, there is not one light on besides the rotating beacon. You call customer service, they tell you the truck and forklift are sitting on the ramp waiting for you. There is nothing on the ramp, because you are at the wrong airport. You check your paper work, it says you are at the right airport. Now it is your fault, because you went to the airport you were suppose to and now you are delaying the trip because you did not read the customer's mind.

 

[belchfire]

Hehehe, yeah...

Or you get to the right airport to move some super-sensitive bank materials and know that there is going to be some kind of "handler" riding along. So you taxi in, jump out of your faithful grungy steed wearing your most hoboesque cutoffs and faded company polo "uniform" shirt with the cigar butt clenched in your shaven two (or was it three?) days ago mug expecting some
HS dropout security type...

only to discover a really hot teller is going to be next to your avgas and Aeroshell soaked, sleep depraved butt for an hour and a half...

 

[RefugePilot]

The cleanest part of the aircraft is inside the nacelles.

 

[landlover]

when you fly a clapped out falcon 20 at 280 cause you ain't got no rvsm. no auto pilot, no flight director. RAW DATA to mins.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

When your pressurized turboprop never sees a Flight level
(unless you go international).

When the required TCAS/TAWS is worth more than the entire
airplane.

CE

 

[Spoolingbyu]

You despise your dispatcher saying the words "super-super ASAP"

While waiting on freight with no other place to go, you decide that with a modest effort the 9-G Net can be strategically re clipped into a makeshift hammock for a few z's.

Seeing other crews with Taco Palenque from LRD makes you jealous.

 

[hawk16e]

Taco Palenque is also available in MFE and BRO.

 

[PURPLEHAZE21]

How do you know there's a "Freight Dog" pilot at the party ? Don't worry ...they'll let you know !!!!

 

[Drill Sgt. Dad]

You might be a freightdog if you carry a mason jar in your bag since the plane doesn't have a lav.

 

[CherryBomb]

You despise your dispatcher saying the words "super-super ASAP"

While waiting on freight with no other place to go, you decide that with a modest effort the 9-G Net can be strategically re clipped into a makeshift hammock for a few z's.

Seeing other crews with Taco Palenque from LRD makes you jealous.

LONG LIVE PALENQUE!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CherryBomb]

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?

One of the truest statements ever presented on flightinfo!!!!!

But wait, you do know there is no room for truth on this board...

 

[Spoolingbyu]

LONG LIVE PALENQUE!!!!!!!!!!

Shouldn't it be

!Viva Palenque!

????



P.S. And yeth I'm aware it's available in Brownthville and McAllen, thankth for letting me know.

 

[IFollowRoads]

... you've "borrowed" a landing light bulb from somebody elses airplane in the middle of the night, technically it wasn't stealing because you replaced it with your burnt out one...

 

[ratherbeflyen]

... you've "borrowed" a landing light bulb from somebody elses airplane in the middle of the night, technically it wasn't stealing because you replaced it with your burnt out one...

Or if your company bid a flight into a hurricane, and only the director of ops will fly it, after everyone else refuses. He runs out of gas, stops at a closed airport (from the hurricane) and "borrows" gas from the plane thats going to be damaged in the storm anyway, right? O ya with a gatorade bottle 32 ounces at a time, that probably was the lav on the previous flight.

 

[shortbus driver]

new one

when you fly into a place and get stuck on the runway cuz its so soft, you talk to another pilot when you leave who says...hell i woundnt fly a baron in there....well our company bid a contract to go in there with a 23,000lb shorts....now get out of our way we need to load and go back in there..

 

[mcjohn]

You might be a "wannabe FR8DOG" if you leave CFIing to speed along the aquisition of the 135 mins by flying radioless banner tow cubs with no electrical system in/out of a busy tourist town airport only in a pair of shorts and tend to attract a crowd intrigued by the ancient art of hand propping. At least I can log all my time for a days worth of towing as apt/apt XC due to stopping at WWD for fuel before returning to JY04. Now for the 100 hrs of night. I only have 22!