You might be frieght trash if....

[F9 Driver]

I couldn't find the list that I had ready for T-shirt production but...

If you've ever stood in front of the vending machine debating the nutritional advantages of cornuts over m&m's!

If the hotel van driver has no idea where you are on the airport.

If your max gross weight mysteriously increases around December 15th.

You declare an emergency if your walkman's battery dies.

The w/x observer comes out of his hole to watch you tale off!

You are on a first name basis with all of the controllers.

You know why you have to have two ADFs.

I'll post more if I cand find the list. Some days I miss being in the cockpit by myself!

It could be worse... you could have to go out and find a real job

 

[OtterFO]

If your preflight includes checking your flight bag for work gloves and knee pads, you might be a frieght dog....

This one is for Asquared:

If your airplane doesn't leak oil, but marks it's teritroy, you might be a frieght dog....

Hows things down south? We're getting hammered up here with the Navajo AD that just came out......

 

[C210drvr]

You might be a freight dog if:

Your motto is "Why check the weather, I gotta go anyway".

You view radar as somthing that by looking at it will just scare you.

Center doesn't say change to my frequency 123.45 any more, they just expect you to be on the new frequency when its time.

You actually find the Art Bell radio show educational. (thats on 1510 AM)

You get informed that there is a ground stop at the airport because of a thunderstorm on top of the field and you don't see what the big deal is.

You haven't looked at a chart in 6+ months.

Someone asks you the biggest part of your job and your response is staying alive!

 

[Lindy]

And.....

Passion for Flying.....I thought I was the only one who did that!!


Who might be a freight dog if....

ATC tells you that no one has been through that line of thunderstroms for over 4 hours -- the line you are currently picking your way through....listening to everyone else deviate

ATC gives you a ride report and you try not to laugh....thank you for the information...ocassional light turb you say??

You give a ride report, hoping that someday some airline will be nice to you and hire you because you told them about the mod turb at 370......not that it bothered you....it kept your f/o awake.


If the ONLY meals you ate that day are the Pizza in LIT (on going to the border and one on the way home....)



Gotta love this life!! It is true freedom...


P.S. And the Pizza in LIT -- if they don't have pizza, they'll give you an ice cream bar & soda (on the house).

 

[SDdriver]

GREAT post guys! Geez it is so crazy how much of this stuff is actually dead on balls TRUE. I always see the sunrise and sunset in one day, always wash my hands before taking a piss, and

Your new FO ask, "what the weather like at our destination?" and you reply, It will be what it is when we get there, STARTING #1.


TO all my brothers out there, fly safe we'll see ya tonight!


SD

 

[KlingonLRDRVR]

When CLT app tells you "You may want to widen it out a bit, you're following a Cherokee and you've got 250 Kts. on him."
OOpps..

KlingonLRDRVR

 

[LR25]

When ATL APP tells you go direct ATL and go fast at 8000ft, and your in a Lear25.


You check on with APP and they clear you to land(runway of your choice), taxi to the ramp and give you your outbound clearance.

You do your preflight, load your boxes, and then wash your hands off under one of the fuel tank drains before you fly.
(BE-18, DC-3)

 

[Mr Freeze]

When you are climbing out at 4000 fpm in a Lear 25 after center clears you to 230 then calls you back to maintain 14000 when your through 12,500 (you know your trash).

 

[hyper]

All of these are great! Toad4 and Spindoctor had me in friggin' stitches!!!

It's a lonely and unappreciated life we live, but as Furloughedgal (how ya doin'?) said........it is true freedom.

 

[TimmyTah!]

Only frieght trash would know that Av gas 100LL works great in Zippo lighters. Never buy fuel again for that lighter

 

[hyper]

oooohhh hard core, man. Nothin' like a healthy dose of lead with that Camel!

 

[Lindy]

HI

KlingonLearDriver.....you guys out of the great white north are over the top......we need to swap this week so we can fly before the lifestyle change!!

Hyper -- doing well -- enjoying the autonomy of the position.

And.....you might be freight trash if the person who share an apartment with only knows you are alive because your car has been moved.

(Well, that was the comment I received this week).

 

[Mr Freeze]

You might be a freightdog, if:

You pack a can of Pledge furniture polish in your flightbag or wing locker and use it as a boot dressing to help keep ice from forming.

It keeps your boots nice and slick.
It works great!

$3.95 at wallmart for the large can.

 

[A Squared]

This one is for Asquared:

If your airplane doesn't leak oil, but marks it's teritroy, you might be a frieght dog....

Hows things down south? We're getting hammered up here with the Navajo AD that just came out......

heh, heh, it's true


You may be freight trash if your ground personnel spreads the "kitty litter" oil absorbent on the ramp with a truck.

You may be freight trash if the "differences" chapter is the thickest section of your AFM.


woof

 

[freightrash]

If ....GIII pilot who just parked, asks you for the fuel and
carrying his luggage to his rental car.

above is a true story.....

 

[flywest]

You might be a freight dog if. . .

Your airplane was getting old when you were born.

You have not done a daylight landing in the past six months.

ATC advises of smoother air at a different altitude, and you don't care.

Center asks you to "keep the chickens down" so they can hear you talk.

Your airplane has more than 75,000 cycles.

Your company call sign is "Oil Can".

Every FBO makes you park out of sight of their building.

When you taxi up to the FBO they roll out the red carpet, but quickly take it back when they recognize you.


Regards,
FlyWest

 

[DC-3TP]

You might be freight trash if SLC Center gives you a block altitude from 12K to FL220 and doesn't care if you fly between layers at 15,350 ft. to avoid Ice at 200AM in your Metroliner.

The good old days. I don't have any good stories to tell our new pilots, since I quit flying freight. I miss my cargo flights in the wee hours of the morning.

 

[JediNein]

Gotta bump this one....

If you and your significant other watch a romantic sunset and she goes to bed while you go to work, you might be a freight dog.

If your logbook shows 378 consecutive trips between the same two airports. The one night it takes .1 longer to get there you note the size of the headwind.
If you've never had to worry about a morning departure curfew...
If the approach controller clears you to land on your first call to his sector because the tower controller is on 'lunch' break...
If your door has a sign that says "solicitors will be shot" and the doorbell and phone are disconnected during business hours...
If you love cell phone off-peak hours...
Burning the midnight oil has a different meaning, and it requires an immediate landing...
While fueling the car at 2:30 AM, a bum gives you a quarter because you need it more than him.
You receive death threats from AAA because your third car breakdown was also at 3 AM.
Your relatives on the east coast ask you to call later in their morning, and you live on the west coast. . .
It has to be a really good reason for the chief pilot to get out of bed in order to talk to you. Same with management.
The apartment is a cave with absolutely no light, and you like it that way.
ATC asks how you are going to get to whatever airport direct as you don't have RNAV and you respond "second star to the right, straight on 'til morning" and mean it.
You have perfected the art of celestial navigation.
Your ops specs includes two approaches based on AM radio stations as the navaids.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[SquirrelDog]

You might be freight trash if...

...you turn the fbo crew lounge into your own living room.

...you stuff every hotel towl around the window to sleep.

...you always park in the back 40

...taxiing in the line guy points near the door but then sees the blocked out windows in the turn and starts running.

...you carry an empty bottle for the lav.

...you carry spares from lights to starter-gens in the A/C.

...when you get out of the A/C the personell want to know where the pilots are.

...before you shut down the FBO already has a bucket under the plane.

...if you leave ATL and in the climb to 350 from 2000 you are cleared direct LAX.

...you wear more grease than your mechanic.

...eating within 12 hours is a luxury.

...on your second stop you grab a six pack and throw in the back to keep cold for the end of the trip at 5 am when nothing is open.

...and you know your trash when the FBO parks you 100 yards futher out than the corporate Apache and asks you to use the linesman entrance.

squirreldog...out

 

[metrodriver]

You're a freightdog if: TSA hasn't confiscated your leaterman yet
-you use your flashlight to illuminate your panel
-you have to slow your caravan because you have a 50kt overtake on a 737 passing the marker
-you have saturday morning powersettings
-you work 3 weeks on/1 week off schedules
-if you got to wait 2 hours so the hotel can clean some rooms
-if you eat breakfast before going to bed and eat dinner for breakfast
-you're airplane is parked as far away as possible from the FBO
and last:
-Raytheon doesn't want to give you fortune cookies that are part of their 'vote for us in the pro-pilot magazine survey' game