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

[Rook]

He didn't mention race at all.

So he's afraid to go into the Murray Trailer because of unsafe working conditions?

Rook

 

[cub46yc]

You are a freight dog if:


-You have your feet up on the panel, mp3 player on, night time with heavy ice, and everything seems ok

-when you drive home in the morning you are on center line of the road

-you take the company vehicle down the road with the most speed bumps to see how much air you can get

-when holding short you position your prop wash at the rvr transmitter and go to take off power for a couple minutes to bring up the rvr

-you have had more ferry permits than days off

god I miss those days!!!

 

[EatSleepFly]

Don't make this into a race problem dude. In the past I've been into DET many times and they've always been friendly to me.

Rook

Oh please, give me a break! It has nothing to do with race. I'm sorry, but I have yet to find anyone at DET that I would consider friendly, regardless of race. I could go on for five minutes about how "pleasant" the folks at Murray are. Have you ever tried to carry on a conversation with anyone there? Ever tried to joke around with anyone? Change the TV channels?

If you knew me, you'd know that I'm a pretty darn nice guy (if I do say so myself ) and not racist in the least. Read it how you want, I just don't care for DET and it has NOTHING to do with race.

I don't discriminate- if you're an a$$hole, you're an a$$hole. Male, female, white, black, skinny, fat, gay, straight, whatever. It was a joke based on my experiences there. If you don't like it, oh well. But I resent being labeled a racist just because I was talking about an FBO that IS in fact a $hithole, that is located in DET, with somewhat less than friendly and outgoing employees.

 

[Fuzzy_is_Hungry]

You know you're a freight dog if you actually had to have some experience to get a job. I.E. 1200 TT not 600 and 100.

 

[Benu]

Has anyone used their ADF as a storm scope lately?

 

[Fuzzy_is_Hungry]

I guess I'm lucky, we don't have ADF's in any of our planes.

 

[Rook]

Oh please, give me a break! It has nothing to do with race. I'm sorry, but I have yet to find anyone at DET that I would consider friendly, regardless of race. I could go on for five minutes about how "pleasant" the folks at Murray are. Have you ever tried to carry on a conversation with anyone there? Ever tried to joke around with anyone? Change the TV channels?

If you knew me, you'd know that I'm a pretty darn nice guy (if I do say so myself ) and not racist in the least. Read it how you want, I just don't care for DET and it has NOTHING to do with race.

I don't discriminate- if you're an a$$hole, you're an a$$hole. Male, female, white, black, skinny, fat, gay, straight, whatever. It was a joke based on my experiences there. If you don't like it, oh well. But I resent being labeled a racist just because I was talking about an FBO that IS in fact a $hithole, that is located in DET, with somewhat less than friendly and outgoing employees.

So tell me again why you were afraid for your life? Was it the hostile environment? Or is it the Gang problem at the Detroit City airport? I'm sure you're a nice guy. I just want to know how is it that I've never had a problem with the folks at Murray and you have, feeling that you're lucky to make it out alive. Enlighten me.

Rook

 

[pilotyip]

A true cargo dog will have 2 ADF's with loop antenna and a BFO (Beat Freq. Oscillator), a fan marker on the audio panel, a SFD (sync freq. discriminator) and actually know how to use it.

 

[EatSleepFly]

So tell me again why you were afraid for your life? Was it the hostile environment? Or is it the Gang problem at the Detroit City airport? I'm sure you're a nice guy. I just want to know how is it that I've never had a problem with the folks at Murray and you have, feeling that you're lucky to make it out alive. Enlighten me.

Rook

You're right. I guess I'm just a little b*tch. The area around DET is such a beautiful and low-crime area, I don't know what on earth I must have been worried about. In fact, next time I go up there, I think I'll hit up the closest party while I wait to get bid out on another trip. Since they're all such nice folks up there, I'm sure they'll welcome me right in with open arms.

 

[StarChk20]

You call for taxi clearance but you receive a takeoff clearance.

 

[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.