Airline with the most physically fit pilots
01-26-2024, 06:49 AM
#21
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Originally Posted by CX500T
I'm mid 40s and Navy Helos to E2s, to oilfield engineering to MC-12s to Delta. So not me but my FO on my last trip rides and has a track in his yard and his wife and kids race.
The venn diagram overlap from motocross and dirtbikes to flying is pretty big.
The venn diagram overlap from motocross and dirtbikes to flying is pretty big.
01-26-2024, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
Interesting! How'd they even find out?
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01-26-2024, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by CX500T
DAL probably does the most to actively discourage staying in shape. I was summoned to the CPO and told I can't race mountain bikes or motocross and even riding on a Supercross track was verboten.
I told them to stuff it as did ALPA.
Long term the occasional broken bone is cheaper than me being out on LTD at 50% high 12/36.
I say this as I'm chowing down on a begneit but I also did a 15 mike mountain bike ride this morning.
I told them to stuff it as did ALPA.
Long term the occasional broken bone is cheaper than me being out on LTD at 50% high 12/36.
I say this as I'm chowing down on a begneit but I also did a 15 mike mountain bike ride this morning.
"Stop hurting yourself and enjoying life"
"Ok, I'll just sit on the couch and get fat so I REALLY use my sick time"
01-26-2024, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by notEnuf
And while your at it, trucking companies too? OTR guys are behind the wheel 12 hours a day. Still never seen a gym at a truck stop. I'm thinking box truck delivery drivers UPS, FedEx.
I had a girlfriend who did that during college. When she graduated, UPS wanted her to become a manager (diversity reasons I assume). She was afraid to get out of shape at a desk, so she kept putting it off. Finally they forced the issue by "finding" minor dings on her truck and documenting those as "accidents". After the third "accident" they called her in for mandatory termination (as a driver) and said OBTW do you want a job in management? Last I heard, 30 years later, she managed to stay in shape.
01-26-2024, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by HeH8Me
Ditto on DAL…..but the bright side of it, is that it gives you a good feeling that your seniority will improve every time you look around when you go to work….
Originally Posted by CX500T
I did race at Unadilla and Southwick this year as well but no TV on either.
01-26-2024, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by John Carr
Hey now, with that fat PS check, splurge and buy the CA a double bacon cheeseburger and help that process along.
Man, did you see years ago when the trikes were making the comeback and that dude on the ATC-250R hit the skyshot? It HAD to be altered. It defied physics, there's no way that dude got that much air. The sheer drag created by his giant set of balls would have prevented that kind of air.
Man, did you see years ago when the trikes were making the comeback and that dude on the ATC-250R hit the skyshot? It HAD to be altered. It defied physics, there's no way that dude got that much air. The sheer drag created by his giant set of balls would have prevented that kind of air.
I cleared skyshot on a 1986 KX 125 at MX Rewind this summer. instead of doubling the uphill going into the left hander before skyshot, I singled, scrubbed a bit then just RAILED the outside line. I was 4th or 5th WFO coming up the face of it "Kehin VM34 carb, blessed by Mitch Payton himself, do not fail me now and bog" granted 5th on my bike is like 4th on most others as I run 13/54 gearing because I'm very large for a 125.
01-26-2024, 09:32 AM
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Favorite moto story my mom tells.. 1985 or so. My dad (a truck driver who raced) had a delivery in Sidney the day before the national. We went to the track, camped out in his 1977 Kenworth cabover, then watched the race.
My mom (who had been to Dilla in the 70s when it was nuts) when we got home "you took him... to UNA FREAKING DILLA with the crazy HILL PEOPLE" (mom didn't say freaking)
Mom: CX what did you learn.
Me and brother in unison "THE OTHER SIDE SUCKS!"
My mom (who had been to Dilla in the 70s when it was nuts) when we got home "you took him... to UNA FREAKING DILLA with the crazy HILL PEOPLE" (mom didn't say freaking)
Mom: CX what did you learn.
Me and brother in unison "THE OTHER SIDE SUCKS!"
01-26-2024, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Broncofan
UAL guys are definitely in the running for most in shape. Well, minus the IAH guys, and obviously our (actual) wide body pilots because they look like death is already knocking, and also the commuting lifestyle isn’t all that good for you either so that kinda takes out SFO, EWR, and LAS guys… on second thought maybe we can take the figurative cake for most figurative wide bodies.
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