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

[jwadtw]

You get your IFR, Start/Pushback, Taxi and Takeoff clearances from the same guy - at ORD.

 

[Dumbluck]

If you change out of uniform when you get to the airplane

-Save the white shirt-

 

[414Flyer]

When they ask you if you want to take off from the intersection that is 2/3 of the way down the runway, just because well you are a freight dog and know how to fly and that you will do anything to get off the ground earlier and not have to sit behind 15 jets in sequence for full length.

When you have a section of rubber hose to beat ice off of the plane.

When you often didnt have an alternate in your flight plan when legally you did, because you never even checked the weather since you were going anyways.

When cruise flight was a great time to do your W&B.

When you knew your fields so well, you could call them in sight from 45+ miles out in the day and actually be honest.

When you spilled more coffee in the airplane than you actually drank.

When your first leg of the morning, you had autopilot on, are flying half awake/half asleep in a semi lucid state with eyes closed, just listening for your callsign.

When you thought your engines stopped momentarily, but it was just you falling asleep for a split sec.

When you dont even pull out charts at all anymore on your routes, because you know it so well you could fly it asleep, and probably have already.

These do not apply to my current freight job, just my previous one in the north country about 5 year ago.

 

[Kaman]

You know you're a freight dog at heart. if you'd rather be flying a Seneca I back and forth thru a line of thunderstorms in July with no strikefinder or radar. Crazy, I know but I really miss that sometimes...

Regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[Turbosnake03]

when you double check how long the flight is, so you will know how many quarts of oil you need to add before you leave.

 

[414Flyer]

You know you're a freight dog at heart. if you'd rather be flying a Seneca I back and forth thru a line of thunderstorms in July with no strikefinder or radar. Crazy, I know but I really miss that sometimes...

Regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

My contribution above yours, actually came from my time in a Seneca as a Freight Dog in ND/MN. I am doing freight again, but without the severe cold and blizzards, t storms, etc etc.

 

[Photoflight]

When your coffee freezes before you have a chance to drink it because its 18 below and the heater hasn't worked since 1978.

 

[SE-30]

You might be a freight dog if....

Center tells you to speak up because the chickens in the back are making too much noise!

 

[TWA]

You might be a freight dawg if...

You're on a first name basis with ATC at YIP

Ground looks for a cloud of smoke instead of your plane

Your engines get changed as often as the oil

You have to add a gallon of oil to each engine before AND after each flight

Your emergency procedures include "Stick your bare a$$ in the windscreen to make it interesting for the NTSB"

 

[bradcfi]

You might be a FR8DOG if...

You have held a one way conversation with a donated organ.

 

[bradcfi]

...and a two way conversation with mice.

 

[mar]

...

...or sing at the top of your lungs to stop yourself from falling asleep...

...but only *after* you check for a stuck mike...

...cause that'd look really dumb.

 

[Tex]

I'm Drunk

You might be a dog if you plan the duty day around the local bar or hooker schedule.

 

[TWA]

You convince dispatch to let you land at another airport because there's a waffle house across the street.

 

[Kaman]

Had a few conversations with both mice, organs and radioactive isotopes. Oh, and the dreaded..."fecal, urine and tissue samples plus infectious diesease material...Hard to believe that they would send that stuff via a Learjet to my beat-up Cherokee 6!

 

[mar]

You might be a dog if you know...

...that human hair is hazmat because it's combustible.

And blood is corrosive to aluminum.

 

[AerroMatt]

If you can't remember if you're supposed to avoid thunderstorms by 20 miles or 20 feet.

if MSP center clears you for approach to DIK and never bothers to mention which approach (just leaves that up to you, since they have no radar below 8000ft anyway).

 

[shortbus driver]

if you don't have an apartment and just take a shower and sleep at the ups hub. can you call that a permanent address?

if you have gotten vectors for 500 miles direct when able without a gps

 

[NoPax]

Heard this last night from a friend of mine...

'Cleared to Destination direct, climb to 13000, deviations in heading and altitude approved' - there was no-one else flying

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

You're a Fr8 dog if....

Your go-no-go decision is based on where your car is parked.

You've created your own approach by combining elements you liked from other approaches because yer smarter than them boys who built that original LOC BC

You've told other Fr8 Mutts about it and they like it too.

You name it the "Sneaky Creek Arrival, Pilot Nav" just like you think Elrey Jepp would've