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

[leardawg]

If you're an expert at hand-flying a Lear at FL410 @0200 ELP-YIP while doing the head-bob thing.

If the house keeping at your hotel speaks better english than your FO.

If you've ever been asked to leave the premises at an FBO because you look like a homeless person.

If the smell of popcorn evokes memories most people get from thoughts of Thanksgivings past.

If your thunderstorm avoidance procedures rely on "was that a flash at about 2 O'Clock?! Let's ask for 20 to the left!"

If you've developed an affinity for burnt coffee.

If you know which recliners in which FBOs offer the most comfortable several hours of sleep.

If you've ever slept using half the cargo net as a mattress, and the other half as a blanket.

 

[leardawg]

If you've ever put coins into the pilot desk phone @ Murray Aviation in DET. (They still have that thing?).

If you've ever gotten "into" whatever program The Brothaz are watching @ Murray.

If you've EVER been to the Murray shack @DET.

If you've flown into DET 200 times, but never have been to Signature (and never realized they have an FBO there).

 

[ShortBusTim]

You might be a freight dog if the only glass on the flightdeck is the windshield...

 

[414Flyer]

You might be a freight dog if the only glass on the flightdeck is the windshield...

I made that exact comment to my FO other day too about the Shorts.

 

[Dumbluck]

do Ehsi's/ Eadi's count as glass?

If you and your airplane were born on the same day, you might be a
frieght-dog

 

[leardawg]

do Ehsi's/ Eadi's count as glass?

If you and your airplane were born on the same day, you might be a
frieght-dog

That's not saying a lot these days. If your airplane and your DAD share the same birth day, you might be a freight dog!

 

[leardawg]

If the Customs guy @ YIP has refused to come out until you move, because you've parked 10 feet short of the Customs Circle at night or on a snow-covered ramp.

 

[Going2Baja]

If you change out of your uniform after the push and put on your Navy Sweats.

If you tell the jumpseater to sleep in the a/c while you go to your hotel in Singapore.

If you are the new crew and you find the jumpseater asleep in the cockpit and this doesn't bother you.

If you give (above) jumpseater a ride from ANK to Lax and he is carrying a surfboard and that doesn't even warrant a question.

If you buzz Tavarua off Fiji at under 500 agl and think this is std ops.

If capt is 26 and f/o is 24 and f/e is 70 on a B-747 (same flt as above)

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Some of the best flights as pilot or jumpseater I've ever had were while jumpseating on Fed-X and Polar - THANKS GUYS!!!

BTW - all above were witnessed by me while jumpseating international.

 

[727gm]

You might be a freight dog if:

You get parked at a jetway, and all three crewmembers go down to take photos to show the guys back at the hub.

You have to climb down the emergency escape rope to talk to the fueler and get your flight plan at an intermediate stop. (extra credit if this occurs AT YOUR HUB.....well, it WAS before-hours..)

You begin crossfeeding off of the other wing after you notice the excessive aileron yoke displacement poking out from behind the capt and FO's newspapers.

You insist the company provide full-sized 8 x 12" laminated plastic briefing, normal, & emergency checklists because you fly east on the outbound.

You know what a tailstand, a gill liner, and a 9-G bulkhead is.

You piss in a "baggage closet" (NO no. 2!)

Your FE panel has a sharpie-marker "fun meter" on it (and it's pegged)

Your aircraft HAS an FE panel.

Your aircraft is over 100,000 lbs and you have "flight followers" instead of dispatchers.

You carry a Leatherman in your flight case.

 

[leardawg]

If you were on a first-name basis with Ralph at Brownsville Air Center (in the late 90's/early 2000's; don't know if he's still there).