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

[brokeflyer]

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.

 

[1flier]

You might be a Freight Dog if....

When Southwest tells approach they will hold while waiting to see if the guy in the 210 behind them makes it in since the Cat 2 is not available. Then you definately are a freight dog for FLX.


Standard 210 cockpit:
GPS (on back order)
Stormscope( permanently removed)
Autopilot (you are so funny)
DME (if dispatch likes you)
LORAN (we do it old school, its for nostaglia)

Freight Dog math: 2 VORs + 1 ADF in Cessna 210 = 1 highly religious pilot with the almighty on speed dial

All jokes aside as a former freight dog and possibly returning, its most likely the hardest but most interesting flying you can do, no autopilot, no copilot, flying in weather no one else will in a POS barely held together. Plus boxes don't B$%^h

 

[timeless]

If you were tempted to request a lower altitude so your Ipod would start working again.

 

[mnixon]

I didn't know altitude affected the IPOD's

 

[Wankel7]

I didn't know altitude affected the IPOD's

+1 ?

 

[SXMp2c]

Autopilot? is that when you rig the gust lock over the yoke to hold it in place while playing "battleship" with your roomate on CO freq (130.65) at 1am over the everglades at 1500ft?

 

[mnixon]

I know mine worked at 17,000 unpressurized.

 

[timeless]

My Ipod froze up after about 20 minutes at FL190. Another thread explained why this happened and stated that apple rates them up to 10,000 ft. Mine works well up to about 17,000 feet.

You might be a freight dog if.....

You've seen another companys falcon do a u-turn on the ramp because there were feds looking at your plane.

You know which hotel in Laredo gives you free hotdogs, beer and nachos.

 

[mnixon]

Buddy flyin into SAV, on a LOW downwind, saw the fed lear and assorted individuals on the Sig ramp, mysteriously had to divert.

 

[huh]

when the controller asks what your descent rate is and you reply "I don't know, the gauge only goes to 10,000 ft/min"

 

[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.