You might be a freight dog if...
#101
Line Holder
Joined APC: May 2011
Posts: 42
I use to slide the canopy back to keep cool during the summer and use a can oil oil to keep it open. That worked until the company started asking about excessive oil use when I flew. LOL I can not tell you how many cans of oil I lost over NC and VA LOL.
#102
Line Holder
Joined APC: May 2011
Posts: 42
Maybe it is because this was my first turbo prop that I still smile every time I see a BE-99. At the time, I was just looking for the 1000 hrs turbine PIC. Little did I know, I would learn skills that would safe my life latter on. "Freightdog" should be a title that those of us who did it should wear as a badge of honor.
There is nothing like hand flying a ILS down to mins during the night and some how "seeing" the lights so you can land then listen to the USAir behind your go around. It is to bad the Reserve no longer requires paper checks, its a great way for the younger pilots to learn great stick and rudder controls.
#104
I was also taught to jam a book of some sort on the canopy rail to keep it open in case of an off site landing. Someone flipped a Cheetah, survived the crash but perished upside down because the canopy was jammed.
#105
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: left seat regional
Posts: 146
You get clearance, taxi, and takeoff clearances all at once on the same frequency at large airports.
You can't remember reporting moderate anything, but you head still hurts from hitting the ceiling crossing the rocks lastnight.
You've unloaded / loaded in the taxiway hammerhead at the end of the runway at large aiports because the snow isn't plowed and is too deep for drivers and airplanes to make it to the ramps.
You cancel IFR almost everytime you enter bravo airspace.
If you get an acceptable RVR "report" from approach, you wait until crossing the marker to call tower.
You can't remember reporting moderate anything, but you head still hurts from hitting the ceiling crossing the rocks lastnight.
You've unloaded / loaded in the taxiway hammerhead at the end of the runway at large aiports because the snow isn't plowed and is too deep for drivers and airplanes to make it to the ramps.
You cancel IFR almost everytime you enter bravo airspace.
If you get an acceptable RVR "report" from approach, you wait until crossing the marker to call tower.
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