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Lindy
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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).
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).
A Squared
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freightrash
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flywest
Respect my authoritaaahh!
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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
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
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.
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.
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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
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
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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
...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
No jobs anymore in here??
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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
-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
jetdriven
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-- when none of the six levers on your 401 match up, and it doesnt matter anyway because no two readings on the engine instruments match either.
--when it's 5:30 AM, its 200 and 1/2 for your ILS and you have to apply the "breakfast minumums adjustment" by subtracting 100 and 1/2 to the published minimums.
--when your pretakeoff mental briefing is "god, I sure hope nothing is going to go wrong on this takeoff, or else I'm gonna have to crash" because you're so tired you wont even try to feather the correct prop.
--if you've ever taken off with the flaps down in a twin cessna.
--if you've ever landed with the aux tanks on in a PA-31-350.
--when the metro I is a "step up" from your navajo, and you long for the day you get it.
--when it's 5:30 AM, its 200 and 1/2 for your ILS and you have to apply the "breakfast minumums adjustment" by subtracting 100 and 1/2 to the published minimums.
--when your pretakeoff mental briefing is "god, I sure hope nothing is going to go wrong on this takeoff, or else I'm gonna have to crash" because you're so tired you wont even try to feather the correct prop.
--if you've ever taken off with the flaps down in a twin cessna.
--if you've ever landed with the aux tanks on in a PA-31-350.
--when the metro I is a "step up" from your navajo, and you long for the day you get it.
You know your a freight dog when you consider sleeping under the pool table a luxary accomidation for day rest.
...when external oil is considered part of maintance's anti-rust program...
...when you have to park at the most extreme parts of the ramp so that you don't scare the "customers"...
...when ATC knows you by your first name, you might just be a freight dog
...when you realize you have more in common with a Vampire than your D.O. you might be freight dog. (unless you D.O. is already blood thirst SOB)
...when more things are MEL-ed than working you just might be a freight dog...
...when your neighborhood life insurance refuses to insure you because your job is overly hazzardous, you just might be a freight dog..
...and if you laugh when Airline Captains anxiously ask for rediculous vectors around fair weather cumulus clouds, you might just be a freight dog veteran.
...when external oil is considered part of maintance's anti-rust program...
...when you have to park at the most extreme parts of the ramp so that you don't scare the "customers"...
...when ATC knows you by your first name, you might just be a freight dog
...when you realize you have more in common with a Vampire than your D.O. you might be freight dog. (unless you D.O. is already blood thirst SOB)
...when more things are MEL-ed than working you just might be a freight dog...
...when your neighborhood life insurance refuses to insure you because your job is overly hazzardous, you just might be a freight dog..
...and if you laugh when Airline Captains anxiously ask for rediculous vectors around fair weather cumulus clouds, you might just be a freight dog veteran.
Rook
And shepherds we shall be
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You might be freight trash if...
You have to fly the plane from the instruments on the other side.
You have to donate plasma to supplement your income.
You have to enter your airplane from the cargo door.
You rate the airports you fly into on whether the Lazy boys are in working order
Your captain says, "you take it i'm gonna grab some shuteye" and instead of napping next to you he/she climbs onto the cargo and goes to sleep.
You know where Willow Run airport is (my personal fave)
You laugh when your friends ask you what sim training was like.
If you can name more than 3 135 companies.
You've had to spin the props after landing (LOL!)
You've slipped on the wing while preflighting and slid all the way down to the ramp ripping your jeans in the process.
You've flown with Connie K himself (love the guy)
You know what the 'Garrett salute' is (fingers plugged in ears)
You never were a coffee drinker until you started flying freight.
You go to jumpseat somewhere and the gate agent says, "Who do you work for again?"
You wake up in the morning have a full day, go to sleep at midnight or later and as soon as you hit the pillow...BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Fly safe freight dogs!
Rook
600' AGL Autopilot on.
'WHEW!'
You have to fly the plane from the instruments on the other side.
You have to donate plasma to supplement your income.
You have to enter your airplane from the cargo door.
You rate the airports you fly into on whether the Lazy boys are in working order
Your captain says, "you take it i'm gonna grab some shuteye" and instead of napping next to you he/she climbs onto the cargo and goes to sleep.
You know where Willow Run airport is (my personal fave)
You laugh when your friends ask you what sim training was like.
If you can name more than 3 135 companies.
You've had to spin the props after landing (LOL!)
You've slipped on the wing while preflighting and slid all the way down to the ramp ripping your jeans in the process.
You've flown with Connie K himself (love the guy)
You know what the 'Garrett salute' is (fingers plugged in ears)
You never were a coffee drinker until you started flying freight.
You go to jumpseat somewhere and the gate agent says, "Who do you work for again?"
You wake up in the morning have a full day, go to sleep at midnight or later and as soon as you hit the pillow...BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Fly safe freight dogs!
Rook
600' AGL Autopilot on.
'WHEW!'
metrodriver
No jobs anymore in here??
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Low & Slow
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You may be freight trash if...
You've considered a single engine take off in a twin.
You find a full moon blinding.
The most expensive thing you own is your headset.
You take pride in the "Cargo Only, No passengers" placard
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Fly safe. Go Bless America.
You've considered a single engine take off in a twin.
You find a full moon blinding.
The most expensive thing you own is your headset.
You take pride in the "Cargo Only, No passengers" placard
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Fly safe. Go Bless America.
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