Hetman

Nothing like a healthy dose of hate to buzzkill an entertaining discussion.

You might be an ACMI pilot if, when you wake up, you don't know if the dim light filtering through the window is dawn or dusk.

Boris Badenov

You've nothing better to do on your 2 week Doha layover than invade totally unrelated threads to continue your purse fights.

4runner

Or when you bought a pet rabbit and they cooked it when you were on a 3 day..

4runner

Btw, you’re all welcome for this. There’s another thread on pprune that’s similar titled “you might be in Africa if”

WHACKMASTER

You’re filing your flight plan in the base of the tower in a god-forsaken sh!h0le African country when the burka clad controller who’s helping you fill out the paperwork suddenly excuses herself, grabs her prayer rug and disappears for several minutes.

robthree

...if your jumbo size passport is less than five years old, but you still have to get a new one, because all the pages are filled with entry/exit stamps and visas.

Csy Mon

When the company gives you $40k in cash and tell you walk over to the tower to pay landing fees, no receipts expected or required.

When the airplane breaks down and won’t fly for a while because there are no parts in the entire country. One of the guys go to the bar and guzzle down 6 beers in 2 hours and mx call to advice the plane is ready. You all dress up and go fly.

When you have premium sea food catering out of ANC and the mechanic and load Master help them self to the best stuff just after T/O while the cockpit crew are busy. And it happens every time..

When crew schedule dead-head you to Bombay and instruct you to call when you get there. You call and they ask what you are doing in Bombay...?
3 days later they call and ask you to dead-home.

When you unexpectedly have to land in some African country you never heard of, then lie through your teeth to avoid paying the $10k cash landing fee you don’t have.

When you ariive in Kazakhstan tired as a dog and the hotel says they have no reservations for you, besides there are no rooms available in the entire town.
When the same happens in Africa shortly after.

When you dead-head into some obscure country without Visas in the passport and have to negotiate your release for the next 3 hours.



(3 years with Evergreen, 7 years with Tower Air, 3 years with Tradewinds, etc.)

l8fr82hub

That one definitely strikes a nerve!

4runner

You’ve got T-Mobile. Autopay for bills, normally carry emergency $100 bills(2008 or newer), have had to empty or “donate” liquor as you were dead heading to a dry country, at least 3 different SIM cards, several power adaptors, an external battery for when the plugs still don’t work, you’ve taken a scooter taxi, have a souvenir ping pong, counterfeit viagra orders or you know how many family members the Filipino handler has.

Red Baron

Hilarious but oh so true....