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

[twott driver]

You've slept in the plane wrapped in a greasy engine cover because the piece of crap company car won't start again.

 

[HeaDTriP]

over company freq the questions asked if you cloned yourself then had sex with your clone would you be gay and then tower clears you and your clone to land because they were listening to same freq.

takeoff clearance is "takeoff at your own risk"

 

[Avimec]

Might be a fgt dog if center calls and askes if it would be a big deal if you were missing a tire.....cause " You might be."

 

[CoATP]

1. When you can't see the panel because the snow outside is blowing around inside the cabin; leaking thorugh the door seal (unseal)
2.your life consists of eat, sleep, fly and all can occur in any order and simultaneously
3. The radar sweeps, tests, but won't even paint the ground and op checks OK.
4.brakes on one side only are an okay item so you land south to be able to turn off the runway in the right direction
5. You check weather not for go/no go but to see whether you will be late for breakfast.
6. You are carrying live fish and they arrive frozen
7. You divert and the UPS driver goes to the wrrong airport
8. You go to fly a shiny jet at a regional because it has a cockpit door [which closes!] and has a heater and air conditioning that work and then realize this comfort costs you 25k a year in pay

 

[TWA]

There is a mandatory FOD sweep preformed on the runway after each time you take off/land

You stay current by seeing how many times you can bounce the plane on the runway

When you file you just give FSS your tail number and say "The Usual"

Your "apartment" is nothing more than a storage unit

The company has you pay for all your fuel in cash

You sleep in the airplane in you're first on the call list

The heating ducts have been removed from the cockpit to save fuel

Instead of a contrail you have a trail of black smoke

You lose engine 1, and it's no big deal.

You lose engine 2, and it's still no big deal.

You've ditched in the same corn field more than once

2 quarts of Jack Daniels is mandatory survival equipment

 

[Jurassic Jet]

There is a mandatory FOD sweep preformed on the runway after each time you take off/land

You stay current by seeing how many times you can bounce the plane on the runway

When you file you just give FSS your tail number and say "The Usual"

Your "apartment" is nothing more than a storage unit

The company has you pay for all your fuel in cash

You sleep in the airplane in you're first on the call list

The heating ducts have been removed from the cockpit to save fuel

Instead of a contrail you have a trail of black smoke

You lose engine 1, and it's no big deal.

You lose engine 2, and it's still no big deal.

You've ditched in the same corn field more than once

2 quarts of Jack Daniels is mandatory survival equipment

ROTFLMAO! One of the best yet! :laugh: :beer:

 

[speedbird1974]

You may be a frgt dog if you save the pizza box just in case you have to go.

You may be a frgt dog if you watch the sun come up twice in a single trip.

You may a frgt dog if you make a quick stop on your way to the airport to buy redbull.

You may be a frgt dog if you know what mexican IFR is.

You may be a frgt dog if you request departure control for any chance direct destination.

 

[speedbird1974]

You may be a frgt dog if you save the pizza box just in case you have to go.

You may be a frgt dog if you watch the sun come up twice in a single trip.

You may a frgt dog if you make a quick stop on your way to the airport to buy redbull.

You may be a frgt dog if you know what mexican IFR is.

You may be a frgt dog if you request departure control for any chance direct destination.

 

[AIR2MUD]

You fly past your destination, only to have center wake you up.

...and you're a really experienced FR8Doggie when you tune the destination ATIS in, make sure the squelch button is pushed in, and crank the volume up all the way...automatic alarm clock at 50 miles out.

 

[AIR2MUD]

If you take in 32 ozs. of bottled water and find that you have to urinated more than the bottles will hold.

That's why you have to have many, many piddle packs. No messing with trying to aim down a 1/2" wide opening with your monster Zeus in hand. Just don't forget to put it away when you're done, unlike my buddy Shorty over in the desert.

Yes, that's where the name came from, too.

 

[AIR2MUD]

You know you’re a freight dog when you see the FBO girl put out cookies and say to yourself “dinners going to be good tonight…”

...and you know you're a real FD8DOG when the girl behind the counter left 6 hours ago, and locked up every free food item normally given to those who fly non-vampiric hours.

You're also a real FR8Doggie when you know where the key to said items is, and acquire some for a 0300 snack, never taking everything so as to not raise suspicion that they really are feeding the animals.

 

[pilotyip]

Even better you know you are a freight dog, if the girl at the FBO hides the cookies and locks the popcorn machine when you come in, even though you are buying 1000 gallons of gas.

 

[AIR2MUD]

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

What IS it with those a-holes there? I used to be based there in a C402, and they are some mighty big jackmonkeys...

 

[AIR2MUD]

When every landing you've made the past 3 nights looks like my avatar.

What is it with the Barons having the hotplate in the center? What a PITA. Even the Cessnas at least have the strip on the driver's side, quasi-centered.

 

[AIR2MUD]

Has anyone used their ADF as a storm scope lately?

No, but I do get a kick out of using it to listen to Coast to Coast AM, and realize that even though I am working vampiric hours, I'm one of the more NORMAL people up at those hours...

 

[AIR2MUD]

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!

Dude, all we carry is biohazard! Now that's a REAL FR8Doggie...especially when you have a 'stinker', and don't know whether it smells worse than your own breath.

 

[NewBlue]

When you read the manafest and haz-mat dec and notice that it says to keep the article a minimum of 13 feet from the flight crew. Thank heavens for the aft cargo area in the mighty SD360. :laugh:

 

[big pimpn']

If you’re employer has to buy company apartments in YIP because you have been kicked out of every hotel in Bellevue. You might be a FR8DOG.

If you’re employer has to bail you out of jail in Tuscaloosa Alabama after being arrested for public intoxication and you’re punishment is that you have to ride back to Addison in a grey hound bus. You might be a FR8DOG.

 

[yzf6]

If you’re employer has to bail you out of jail in Tuscaloosa Alabama after being arrested for public intoxication and you’re punishment is that you have to ride back to Addison in a grey hound bus. You might be a FR8DOG.

awesome man!

you might be a fr8dog if...

you've played battleship over the company freq.. after the dvd player battery has run out..

you don't use your callsign when talking to atc and they still know who you are.. and when you ask if you're cleared to land, the reply is "sure"..

keep em coming!

 

[leardawg]

If you've ever hired on with a company just so they would pay for you to get a type rating, then jumped ship for a better job.

(Never did that myself, but saw a few who did).

 

[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).