You might be a freight dog if..........
10-09-2010, 06:06 PM
#21
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Posts: 585
You know your bird can depart with max flaps.
You regularly depart with max flaps.
You've worked for three different operators this year and are getting ready for a fourth.
Working reduces your unemployment claim that was based on your working at a pax regional. But it's flight time.
Shove, shove, rotate, land, shove, shove, rotate, land, shove shove...
You're out the door and leaving the parking lot before the props stop, 'cause you just got paid and need to make it to the bank before the check bounces.
Someone starts a discussion on the 'net about rolling their freighter bird and you don't have to try it, you already know what your bird does.
Your logbook is filled with identical flight, 6.1 hours night, same four airports.
You don't need to set an alarm clock, you wake 5 min out without prompting.
A/P? We don need no steekin autopilot! A bungee cord works just fine.
You need an LOA type rating to fly your bird.
Your bird has been for sale since you started working there.
You regularly depart with max flaps.
You've worked for three different operators this year and are getting ready for a fourth.
Working reduces your unemployment claim that was based on your working at a pax regional. But it's flight time.
Shove, shove, rotate, land, shove, shove, rotate, land, shove shove...
You're out the door and leaving the parking lot before the props stop, 'cause you just got paid and need to make it to the bank before the check bounces.
Someone starts a discussion on the 'net about rolling their freighter bird and you don't have to try it, you already know what your bird does.
Your logbook is filled with identical flight, 6.1 hours night, same four airports.
You don't need to set an alarm clock, you wake 5 min out without prompting.
A/P? We don need no steekin autopilot! A bungee cord works just fine.
You need an LOA type rating to fly your bird.
Your bird has been for sale since you started working there.
10-09-2010, 08:13 PM
#22
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Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,235
You have multiple type ratings that are useless because all of the aircraft of that type have been scrapped except for the one you are currently flying and its no longer in production.
Last edited by 757upspilot; 10-09-2010 at 11:07 PM.
10-10-2010, 06:39 AM
#24
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Position: What day is it?
Posts: 963
...You're walking through a terminal and a passenger guy who pretended you didn't exist a year ago when you were on his jumpseat walks up and says, "Hey! Remember me? Gave you a ride awhile back...are you guys hiring?"
10-10-2010, 07:55 AM
#25
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: MD11 CPT
Posts: 1,077
Airport rent a cops roust you out of the commuter passenger terminal with a night stick (happened to me several times at Kalitta's HUF sort).
Off duty strippers deliver the hoagies to your crew hotel crew lounge (which has a pony keg each morning).
You get denied hotel rooms because your company hasn't paid the bill for six months.
The crew hotel has bullet proof glass.
The hotel van driver wands you before letting you in the van.
I could go on for hours....
Off duty strippers deliver the hoagies to your crew hotel crew lounge (which has a pony keg each morning).
You get denied hotel rooms because your company hasn't paid the bill for six months.
The crew hotel has bullet proof glass.
The hotel van driver wands you before letting you in the van.
I could go on for hours....
Last edited by Sideshow Bob; 10-10-2010 at 03:59 PM.
10-10-2010, 08:37 AM
#26
New Hire
Joined APC: Oct 2010
Position: MD-11 FO
Posts: 1
You carry a camping set with you for the cargo deck floor.
You ask the Incheon hotel van driver, if he will accept his tip in RMB, and he says yes.
You set up a system with the hotel van driver to keep your after hours booze on ice.
You bring slippers to the simulator, to make your V1 cuts more realistic.
You ask the Incheon hotel van driver, if he will accept his tip in RMB, and he says yes.
You set up a system with the hotel van driver to keep your after hours booze on ice.
You bring slippers to the simulator, to make your V1 cuts more realistic.
10-10-2010, 11:12 AM
#28
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Posts: 585
More:
You complain fiercely about the sim's blasted 9-1 PM slot.
Your interview was at night.
Vampires work less hours.
It's common to see three sunsets and two sunrises on the same trip.
You bid based on the moonlight available.
You've ever had to use your celestial navigation skills.
You've flown 30 in 3 and it doesn't matter.
Sleeping on the plane is quieter and more comfortable. "Housekeeping?! Housekeeping??!!"
You're the guy that set the alarm for 3:30 AM for the next airline pilot to wake up with a heart attack.
You get two weeks off while the company goes through bankruptcy and gain five pounds...
You complain fiercely about the sim's blasted 9-1 PM slot.
Your interview was at night.
Vampires work less hours.
It's common to see three sunsets and two sunrises on the same trip.
You bid based on the moonlight available.
You've ever had to use your celestial navigation skills.
You've flown 30 in 3 and it doesn't matter.
Sleeping on the plane is quieter and more comfortable. "Housekeeping?! Housekeeping??!!"
You're the guy that set the alarm for 3:30 AM for the next airline pilot to wake up with a heart attack.
You get two weeks off while the company goes through bankruptcy and gain five pounds...
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