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You might be a freight dog if the mechanics goes down to the main deck to take a shower with bottled water in flight...
 
You might be a freight dog if your aircraft's logs are in spanish.
 
If you've ever used a flashlight or two for landing, nav, or position lights. TG for duct, er, speed tape!

Bonus points if you broke down and bought a green lens for the flashlight.
 
You don't complain about being put up at the Craphole Motel. You're just happy they put you up in a motel intstead of leaving you at the fbo for 10 hours.
 
If a dispatcher has ever said "the radar looks reasonable along you route of flight" and ten minutes after takeoff your FO's flightbag bounces its way into your lap.

Take care,
Fish
 
p.s.
It should be fixed. We looked at it and it seems fine.

Write-up: Aircraft turns uncontrollably to the right. Straight and level flight is obtained by constant left aileron pressure.

Mechanics actions: No problems noted, return to service

Take care,
Fish
 
FR8dog

You been asked to slow to final approach speed because your van is catching the lear on final

or you've been told to "slow it all the way down" and then when your at 70 kts in your Caravan, towers laughs and says "OK speed it back up"

both happened this week @ ATL
 
Punishment?

It's midnight in January. In the pilot's preflight check, the last thing he discovers is there is no one available to help load freight. So, a message is sent to Flight Following to call out a junior DA-20 F/O to help load ,a F/O is rousted from his sleep and dispatched to rectify the situation. First the F/O must get his car running and the battery is dead, which requires his roommate to be rousted out of bed to give him a jump-start. He finally gets to the airport. He arrives at the airplane and is less than enthusiastic about what he has to do. Nevertheless, he goes about the loading job deliberately and carefully (to do it right) so as to not risk criticism later for not loading properly. As he's leaving the plane, a management representative, stops him and says, "Son, your attitude and performance has caused this flight to be two and a-half hours late in take-off. I'm going to personally see to it that you are not just reprimanded but severely punished." The poor guy says, "Sir, with all due respect. I'm not your son. I'm a F/O at XYZ Air Charter. I've been at ABC airport for eleven months without any time off. I have only 3 stripes, it's two thirty in the morning, it's twenty degrees below zero, and my specialty is to push crap to the back of an aircraft. Now just what form of punishment did you have in mind?"
 
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It's midnight in January. In the pilot's preflight check, the last thing he discovers is there is no one available to help load freight. So, a message is sent to Flight Following to call out a junior DA-20 F/O to help load ,a F/O is rousted from his sleep and dispatched to rectify the situation. First the F/O must get his car running and the battery is dead, which requires his roommate to be rousted out of bed to give him a jump-start. He finally gets to the airport. He arrives at the airplane and is less than enthusiastic about what he has to do. Nevertheless, he goes about the loading job deliberately and carefully (to do it right) so as to not risk criticism later for not loading properly. As he's leaving the plane, a management representative, stops him and says, "Son, your attitude and performance has caused this flight to be two and a-half hours late in take-off. I'm going to personally see to it that you are not just reprimanded but severely punished." The poor guy says, "Sir, with all due respect. I'm not your son. I'm a F/O at XYZ Air Charter. I've been at ABC airport for eleven months without any time off. I have only 3 stripes, it's two thirty in the morning, it's twenty degrees below zero, and my specialty is to push crap to the back of an aircraft. Now just what form of punishment did you have in mind?"
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that is when you quit. i'd laugh if my pager went off to just load freight. where the hell was the other pilot doing the trip? real freight dogs don't get pushed around like that.
 
That was a take off of a USAF story going around about a lav service tech (blue water) at Tulee (sp?) Greenland.
 
freight dog if......

nose cargo door flys opens in flight...at night...in the soup...with ice...and you have to stick your left hand out the tiny storm window...put the ac in a slip so that you can catch and hold the F****cargo staps... so that they don't catch the prop....and then fly one handed and land while your left hand gets a coat of rime and an inch of clear.

eeeeehahhhhaaaaa
 
...you know which model aztecs are capable of handproping and it's really not a problem because the same model is capable of a single engine takeoff...
 
It is possible to hand prop a "shower of sparks" igintion system engine. You just better have someone that knows what they are doing help out!

hehehe

You might be a freight dog if when you ask the manufacturer's rep a question about your aircraft the answer is "We aren't sure and the gentleman that designed that system is deceased!"
 
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