You Just Might Be A FLOPS Pilot If ...

[On Your Six]

Thanks for wasting our time with your cheap remarks. /QUOTE]

Thanks for bringing an otherwise amusing thread to a screeching halt.

Thanks Heavy for being a complete JERK!

 

[leardawg]

" Heavyset was barely into his monologue when he was drowned out by a chorus of "BOO"s, "Get off the stage!" and "Yo mama wears combat boots!". As the audience began to get unruly, he was rapidly escorted off the stage as the eggs and tomatoes began to fly!"

Let me try to get the party started again. You just might be a FLOPS pilot if:

Airline delays on Day 1 roll right off your back (Hey, I'm a pilot; I know things get backed up due to Wx, Mx etc. I'll just sit here and read my procedures and limitations for the next 5 hours!), while the same situation on Day 8 drives you to the point of madness (F**ing incompetent douchebag airlines! When, oh when, will these a**holes get their act together?!).

During those rare multiple-day hotel stays, you become so bored you actually consider running down the hallway yelling (in your highest pitch scream) "Immigracion esta aqui! Immigracion esta aqui!" just to get a chuckle from the ensuing inevitable panic and mayhem.

When the hotel fire alarm goes off at 2 a.m., you stay in bed because, at that particular moment, burning to death seems like an acceptable alternative to interrupting your sleep or dealing with the day that awaits you.

When checking out of the TEB/Lyndhurst Marriott at 4 a.m. you trip the bell at the shop entrance a bunch of times in a row with your foot just to see the pissed-off night clerk come out with bed-hair and eyes barely open. (This refers to you, D.M.!).

 

[learflyer]

1. Your excited about being done after only 10 hours.

2. You have a 5 o"clock shadow at noon time.

3. it's a great day because it is time to wear your days 5-8 pants.

 

[PHX767]

- You look at the grease stain on the back of your shirt (Beechjet pilots) from backing into the left engine and think, "ahh that's still a good shirt."

- When checking out of the hotel they ask you the room number and you truly have no idea.

- You value your Hilton HHonors statement more than the weekly announcement

- You rate your last tour by how many times you had to clean the lav

 

[minimums]

You might be a FLOPS pilot if..........

Your company charters over $200,000 a day (almost everyday) and refuses to hire more pilots or upgrade.......

or, your a Citation X driver and smack the tail of another aircraft........

or, your a Legacy driver and smash not one, but twooooo legacys at the same time.......

ahhhh, and people actually finance this company WHY????

 

[289edwhite]

Is it true that Tim Montie is gay???

 

[netjetwife]

From the homefront---

When you fall asleep talking to your wife on the phone....

When your 3 yr old is learning the days of the week (just to understand when Daddy is coming home) way before any of the other kids that age.

The 3 yr old also grasps the concept that the country is divided into states and knows the names of several.

When your family has gotten so used to your comings and goings that they don't even ask anymore---they know they will see you when they see you.

The neighbor's wife gets embarrassed when your wife gives her the "You -think-so" look upon being told that she is lucky to have help making dinner. They both know that you are gone as much as you are at home.

You collect FBO t-shirts and hats to give for gifts, and it is a family ritual to unpack the "treasure" bag as soon as you get home--dishes, trays, thermoses, etc, are all collected to use at home or pass on to family and friends.

When you know what catering meal to order where so that you get the nicest dishes. You even keep an eye out for particular ones to complete sets at home.

You know exactly which catering meals will taste the best hours after you have ordered them, when you will finally get the chance to eat dinner. Which is also the time you will squeeze in a call to the family, ending with the familiar words "I need to go to sleep now".

 

[XShipRider]

Forums, e-mail, blogs, etc.

Perhaps you should chill out a bit. You could either read my response as critical (which it never was) OR you could read it as curious about what you might like about your job. Sometimes I am just not sure who is serious and who is just being sarcastic... You can't tell on this board because everyone seems so upset all the time - that's the point. I don't work for FLOPS and I don't intend to ever - especially if people like you at FLOPS are powder kegs waiting to blow. Re-read my post in a less hostile frame of mind and you'll see that I was just curious and sincerely sorry that it "seemed" you didn't like your job. Perhaps you should drink less caffeine...

It seems we've all forgotten the golden rule of e-mail (forums, blogs, etc., fit
into this category too)... i.e. Inflection, tone and intent can be miscontrued
in e-mail.

 

[hyper]

It seems we've all forgotten the golden rule of e-mail (forums, blogs, etc., fit
into this category too)... i.e. Inflection, tone and intent can be miscontrued
in e-mail.

No, will ALWAYS be misconstued.

 

[Nipsedaiser]

...You know which hotels the "Universal Remote" trick works at and which it doesn't. And why....

 

[dalegribble]

What is the universal remote trick?

 

[puddlejumper]

What is the universal remote trick?

That's when you use your universal remote to access the setup screen on the hotel TV to "unblock" the channels used for PPV movies.

 

[JetProp]

-You contemplate why the airlines run ontime when you begin a tour.

-and how when airlining home-the first leg is almost always delayed, yet the connecting flight to your gateway is on time, causing a mis-connect, and the result is getting home hours later than planned.

 

[PHX767]

-You contemplate why the airlines run ontime when you begin a tour.

-and how when airlining home-the first leg is almost always delayed, yet the connecting flight to your gateway is on time, causing a mis-connect, and the result is getting home hours later than planned.

But not late enough to get an overtime day...

 

[netjetwife]

What I want to know

That reminds me of another one from the homefront----

Why is it that we have good weather when it is NOT my turn to do the school run, but as soon as he goes on tour the weather turns bad and I'm out there in the freezing cold scraping ice off the car windows?

 

[CRJ Driver]

Thanks for wasting our time with your cheap remarks. Good luck in your career.

Guys dont listen to heavy, he is not a pilot, he is a wantabee pilot, you can tell by his posts he is NOT A PILOT. Uhhh.....he'll ask whats it like to fly a 747, or a Learjet, and so on.........or what type of sked do you have, if he was a pilot he would know these things and not ask stupid questions. Duhhhh... Maybe UAL is wet leasing the plane for the day......that was the best one of all. His "pilot time" comes from message boards and magazines.....LOL

 

[On Your Six]

Guys dont listen to heavy, he is not a pilot, he is a wantabee pilot, you can tell by his posts he is NOT A PILOT. Uhhh.....he'll ask whats it like to fly a 747, or a Learjet, and so on.........or what type of sked do you have, if he was a pilot he would know these things and not ask stupid questions. Duhhhh... Maybe UAL is wet leasing the plane for the day......that was the best one of all. His "pilot time" comes from message boards and magazines.....LOL

Not only that, but Heavy Set is a complete JERK!

 

[choppengruven]

I was thinking he was a furloughed NW pilot. How else would he have known that Mesaba is the only operator of the RJ85? If he's a wanna be then he can have mine, I'm starting to feel like a wanta be something else these days.

 

[guido411]

I was thinking he was a furloughed NW pilot. How else would he have known that Mesaba is the only operator of the RJ85?

Perhaps he's ridden on one before and hasn't seen any other 85's with another livery. But he's still wrong because Air Wisconsin operates them too.

 

[On Your Six]

Perhaps he's ridden on one before and hasn't seen any other 85's with another livery. But he's still wrong because Air Wisconsin operates them too.

Air Wisconsin does not operate the Avro RJ85 - just the older version 146... The RJ85 is the newer version I believe and Mesaba is the only operator of the newer version in North America if memory serves. I believe Air Whisky and Jazz operate the older 146... I agree, maybe Heavy flew on the RJ85 as a passenger and was familiar...