Fabio is what I've heard.

 

Ah.... come on.... let a man dream! a pilot chick who's not voting for Hilary that thinks most other chicks suck and is making six figures. she's 90% hot without seeing a photo.

 

I've seen Falconjet and I really won't say what he looks like, but I can tell you he wears a very small watch. Now what could that mean? Oh, by the way, his nickname is tripod.

Falconjet, take no offense, I'm just kidding.

 

All this talk of A&P's reminds me of when I was a new hire at UPS, going through the DC-8 ground school. Our instructor was an old DC-8 flight engineer, you know, one of those life long professional engineers. He felt it his duty to impart every bit of DC-8 knowledge he had ever acquired, to us new guys, who had no desire at all to sit for 1 minute longer than required in the back seat.

Anyway, this one day he was talking about the pedestal panel, and more specifically that piece of equipment, hidden within the pedestal, that allowed one pilot to operate the flight controls, in case the other pilot's yoke became obstructed. From what I remember, he called it the "grabber". He was into his lecture of the Grabber for over an hour, when I got up, left the room, and went down to the break room to have a soda and to take a break.

The class came in maybe 5 or 10 minutes later, and the instructor came up to me and asked why I had left the room. In my best new hire form, I explained to him that none of us cared about the grabber, or more specifically, how to build it, because: 1) we were all pilots, not A & P's; and 2) since we couldn't get to the thing, it was of no use in our knowing how to take one apart and put it back together. He thought about that a little and from then on, he taught us in a more pilot friendly manner. I was quite sure that he could build a DC-8 if all the parts were just lying around.

 

Checked my log book and didn't see any flights with 8-capt. Did you maybe go by another name?

 

Hmm, counting the two zeros on the insignificant side of the decimal, I make seven figures. Ignoring the fact that it's 115°F outside, does that make me 92% hot without a photo?

 

I was refering to flying with crewmembers who have a tool in their brain bag, and attempt to dismantle the plane. Been driving the 8 for 20 years now. Should think about switching, but the thought of going to the school house for a month or more depresses me!

 

Thanks for the support JJ, but I've got to fess up.

Picture John Candy, but bald.

FJ

 

Seriously now, I know that I couldn't handle Freightpuppy, because she is most definitely out of my league, way too hot and way too young. On that front I am sure LilJerry speaks the truth.

I just wonder how he can make such an outrageous comment about UPS pilots having a more "varied" background than those at FedEx.

I would just like to know how he can support that argument.

I'm waiting for that one, and dreaming of a hub turn with Freightpuppy!

FJ