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

[Hollywood82]

Might be a freight dog.......

When you give up on shaving, and combing your hair on a daily basis. Hair gets combed on M,W,F and shaving takes place on sunday evenings.

If you fly a Metroliner.

If you think a KLN89B is a "new" peice of equipment.

If you have ever sang along to the AM stations on the ADF with a stuck mic. (center REALLY likes that)

If after flying an overnight, on the way out to the car, you walk past a group of "normal" (non-freight) pilots and you hear them mumble to each other, "That boy aint right."

If you think of your job as the underachievement nexus of your life.

If you frequently say to yourself, "I wish I was at the airlines."

 

[belchfire]

You might be a freight dog if you think that "real airline pilots" look silly with their goofy hats and polyester lounge lizzard blazers and they envy your hatlessness and leather jacket...and you like it that way! (I mean wtf, you might fly a 74-400 for Polar or something, how would they know?)

You're a freight dog if you save your only good uniform shirt for the commute home-which is also the only time that you show up at the airport clean shaven during the sequence...

You might be a freight dog if you don't trust airplanes that are younger than you are...

You might be a freight dog if you aren't sure what a flight director is...

You might be a freight dog if you awaken with a startle as the gear extends (scaring the passengers on both sides of you) only to realize that you're just a passenger on the way home too!

 

[RefugePilot]

You might be a frieght dog if

You have trouble with technically advanced aircraft. How do you work these flip-flop radios?

you have some seniority after 3 weeks, you are a lifer after 3.

you can do the weight and ballance without a calculator.

 

[mcjohn]

Settling right in ey? Why isn't there an AMF in the southeast. I know they have a couple runs and all down here but it seems like all we have is Air Now, ACC and Mountain Air for turbine operators. Fill me in if you know of any other entry level turbine gigs.

You might be an (aspiring) fr8 dog if you're asking stupid questions like the one I just did.

 

[EatSleepFly]

Settling right in ey? Why isn't there an AMF in the southeast.

There is! In San Juan, PR... or is that too far to the southeast?

 

[DirtyBeech]

Mcjohn,
airnet holds down the east,and AMF works the left coast. We had more of a presense prior to CVG's downsizing, but that's kinda how it works. And yes, PR redefines the term southeast.

 

[Hawker rider]

...you move on to a decent airline job and a few weeks later you realize that you used to go on a 40day trip and all the bagage you used to take would fit into your flightcase now....

 

[thunderworm]

you might be a fr8 dog if your mechanics put on the parts in boxes to fix your aircraft and tell you the guys at the next stop will fix it for ya.

 

[Flying Illini]

yes sir! was flying a single digit serial number DA20 yesterday.

Which number, WHICH NUMBER?!?! We've got SN 8 coming out of the shop (RVSM'ed and everything here in a few weeks). It's got an "8 Ball" painted on the tail!

 

[Flying Illini]

You might be a FR8 Dog if:

You have to wash your hands before you can take a P!SS

LMAO!! So true...so true!

 

[thunderworm]

we have a sn 23 and after flying it a year on a heavy check it was found to have major damage to the tail section the whole time, which is in the procces of being totally rebuilt. who is the sucker to take it on the flight check when all finished is the big question.

 

[727C47]

if you can rope start a DC-3......

 

[landlover]

Which number, WHICH NUMBER?!?! We've got SN 8 coming out of the shop (RVSM'ed and everything here in a few weeks). It's got an "8 Ball" painted on the tail!

005, baby! i win. i fly older equipment!

 

[Flying Illini]

005, baby! i win. i fly older equipment!

damn! We also fly #30 and #59.

 

[Hollywood82]

005, baby! i win. i fly older equipment!

If you compete with other pilots to see who flies older equipment.


I think I once flew a Bonanza with parts used from Buddy Holly's plane. J/K

 

[Morettis]

005, baby! i win. i fly older equipment!

I used to fly Lance Serial #2, which is the oldest one still flying because #1 crashed...

 

[Photoflight]

You get the next airplane with a flight director and you yell at the flight bars to
"GET THE ******************** OUT OF THE WAY"

and the guy training you just laughs.

 

[Princedietrich]

You might be a fr8 dawg if.........

... you turn off the flight director during a single engine ILS in the sim, and the instructor flips out because you're handling 2 emergencies at the same time.

... you can't figure out how to turn on the FMS, and neither can the captain, so you just VOR/DME it.

... the tower asks you to make a short approach and your wheels are on the ground before he can unkey his mike.

... you've ever been told you have a 40 knot overtake on the 737 in front of you, and you're in a Caravan.

... you can outrun a learjet on an ILS, and you're in a Caravan.

... your favorite after-work hangout is a place called the Stop 40. (that one's dedicated to you Starcheckers!)

... you fiddle with the knobs on a GNS-530 trying to figure out how to get Monday Night Football on that thing.

... your airplane has a CB radio in it.

... your courier can't get through the security fence because the gate is broken, so you just toss the boxes over it.

... you've been hit in the head by a flying box full of pee and e-coli.

... your preflight involves the use of a geiger counter.

... you ask for a deice and the line guy hands you a broom.

... you can drop off your cargo without even stopping the plane.

... you think that big puffy leather chair in the Signature pilot lounge is bigger than your bedroom, and it probably is.

... you've ever tried to figure out how to get that big puffy leather chair into the back of your Baron.

... you start the engines on your jet, and the airport fire department shows up because of the smoke.

... you take 2 steps away from your plane after you've parked it and a TSA guy comes out of nowhere and tackles you because you look shady.

... you check in with center and you distinctly hear Jay Leno in the background when you get the reply.

... you've ever done a tactical break approach at PHL in a Lear.

... you've ever done the Dalton 19 at TEB and it went by so fast you don't even remember taking off.

... you consider an FBO with a shower to be luxury accomodations.

... you hang out in dispatch to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the wall-mounted plasma at 2 in the morning.

... you consider Otis Spunkmeyer to be a gourmet chef.

... the airport vending machine runs empty because you got all the food out of it.

... you can spot a Fed from a mile away, and usually run away screaming.

... the Feds can spot you from a mile away, and usually run away screaming.

... the preflight briefing consists of the captain looking over at you and saying "hang on," then he puts out his cigarette and shoves up the power.

 

[landlover]

dang! We also fly #30 and #59.

i've also been prive to fly the highest time falcon in the world! has like 40,000hrs on it or something like that. used to belong to fedex. i think that one is #26

 

[Flysher]

... your courier can't get through the security fence because the gate is broken, so you just toss the boxes over it.

... you've been hit in the head by a flying box full of pee and e-coli.

I laughed my ass off on that one, because its actually happened. Them dang boxes have some sharps corners when their heavy.