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

[movingviolation]

I have every Tower and approach on my normal route on speed dial.

 

[movingviolation]

this is the classic

" you are a frieght dog if you have nearly punched a grumpy on short final "
man i loved that thread !

Funny that you would mention that... I was trying to get into my final stop tonight, and I had a turtle head pokeing out. Now they were calling 100overcast and .25nm with fog. Now my alternate was almost 50min flying time away at 310 speeds. Do you honestly think I'm going to go missed at this point? I guess that's the best part about flying for a part 91 '134.5' opperation. No matter what we can make a go of it.

Turnning in with a 60 degree bank ON Top of the marker, at VLO +5 the whole way down.... you can't have fun like this with people in the back.

I kept thinking of the quote from the 'other' thread "when your configured for METO and feeling that Burito"

 

[leardawg]

You look at the weather channel to see where the absolute crappiest weather is, because that is where you will have to fly to very shortly when the pager goes off.

 

[wingnutt]

...RVR600 and tower asks what RVR you need to land, they give it to you long enough to get inside the marker, then change it right back because they dont want Eagle to try the same thing who has been holding behind you for 90 minutes.

...tower asks what speed you can give to the marker, and you tell em 180 to the numbers (caravan). they come back and ask if that isnt more than VNO and you reply that your number was in groundspeed, as you reach down and pull the overspeed breaker (4th row down, 5th breaker in) so they cant hear the warning over freq.

...another angle on the ATIS wakeup call is the FD. arm approach mode, fly in heading mode. set an intercept ~30 miles out and i guarantee when the plane banks 30 degrees to grab the localizer you will wake up! ...so im told

 

[100-1/2]

...you can paint the "floor" of Class Charlie with the Beacon on your tail and the "walls" with a nav light; if it can save ten minutes of routing/vectors.

100-1/2

"Southwest 1001, traffic 11 o'clock & 2 miles, southwest bound, 1,700 indicated. Look for a Navajo without windows and needing a paint job."

"Departure, SWA1001 traffic in sight. Looks like a ho' licking the icing off the cake."

 

[CSY Mon]

If ya tie a flash-light to a runway light to raise the RVR, then take off before the batteries slowly go dead.


(True story....No furter details... )

 

[flyinlow67]

If the only thing digital in your cockpit is your watch...........

It is kinda cool when all those airliners are in ground hold and you just taxi on by and blast off into the sh!t.......I love doing that!

 

[starcheckdriver]

If you cut open a bag of cargo and take a sh&* in it only to find you have only sectionals or Jepp enroutes to wipe with.

 

[VABB]

If you know PilotYip on a first name basis.

 

[Frank Towns]

When the graveyard line guy (king of the dips**ts) calls the cops on you for just going in the FBO for checking the weather radar on the computer. And tells you they don't like your kind in here, your not there type of clientel (even if you buy two hundered gallons of gas a day from them).

 

[414Flyer]

When you do your weight and balance for that flight when you get up to cruise.

When you know every ILS, Center, approach and tower frequency for your route.

When 300 and 1 mile is a good weather ,200 and 1/2 is a non event.

When your flight bag is a plastic grocery store bag.

You dont even check weather before you take off, because it doesnt matter anyways.

When you rely on FBO pastries and coffee for breakfast.

 

[belchfire]

The only way the landing gear in your airplane
gets greased is if you do it yourself...

Beer does go good with cheerios! Better
with steak and eggs though...

You don't even bother thinking about not going
anymore...

You know more about stellar constellations that
most navigators...

You have had dual generator failures more than
once...

CLT clears you for the approach, landing and to
taxi to the ramp with him, all at the same time on the]
same freq...

You have one functioning set of engine instruments
divided between two engines...

You know exactly where on the arrival that the
left aux tank will run dry...

You dig in the FBO's trash can for bottles to spit
and piss in...

You are now flying pax around and hate those whiny
ba$tards..."I'm cold"..."I'm hot"...Are you the pilot?...
blahblahblah...and wish that someone would come along
and pay a little more to haul checks in a frelling Aztec
again!

 

[Princedietrich]

When the graveyard line guy (king of the dips**ts) calls the cops on you for just going in the FBO for checking the weather radar on the computer. And tells you they don't like your kind in here, your not there type of clientel (even if you buy two hundered gallons of gas a day from them).

Ahh, you've been to MillionAir at BKL too eh?

 

[icefr8dawg]

Tonight....while me, a couple of epps guys and a starchecker are the only ones hand flying approaches in the phl/nyc/buf area

Does it get any better than this?

 

[icefr8dawg]

fu**k Million Air BKL go to Business AC Center down the taxiway, the girls are young and cute there(until 10pm anyway)

 

[Princedietrich]

fu**k Million Air BKL go to Business AC Center down the taxiway, the girls are young and cute there(until 10pm anyway)

Well said! I used to work line at BAC years ago, much better FBO than MillionAir. And they actually appreciate and like their freight dog customers.

 

[Busflyer]

"You are now flying pax around and hate those whiny
ba$tards..."I'm cold"..."I'm hot"...Are you the pilot?...
blahblahblah...and wish that someone would come along
and pay a little more to haul checks in a frelling Aztec
again!"



God I miss freight!!!

 

[scrg41]

You have to convince the RJ pilots in the hotel van that you really are a pilot despite your uniform of Carharts, sweater and dirty fleece jacket.

When you tell them what type of a/c you fly they don't know what it is because they just got out of Embry last week.

Happens to me every week at least once.

 

[movingviolation]

"When center asks how the ride is, you reply (while watching your app. plates float at eye level from the turb) 'not to bad, just a little rough'"

You don't ask for a lower altitude untill the fire extinguisher that's normaly bolted to the floor is somehow sitting on the seat next to you still in its mount.

Both of which happened to me lastnight....

Anybody use Weatherworks? I knew it had an audio warning that said "caution you are approaching a strong storm" well I heard a new one lastnight, 2x "caution you are approaching a rotating storm" WTF Is that? heh

 

[AZaviator]

....."When the last thing you do before going to bed is eat breakfast..."

....."When you squawk 3-4 things after your last flight, then see the same aircraft taxiing out for takeoff 20mins later..."