You might be a freight dog if...
03-31-2012, 11:34 AM
#83
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Fixed wing, left
Posts: 434
Originally Posted by TMoney
You wear ski goggles and a headlamp to work so you can see while you tug the plane out of the hangar during a snow storm at a crappy uncontrolled airport in the middle of nowhere.
04-12-2012, 08:21 PM
#86
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: goin somewhere....
Posts: 59
Originally Posted by WarrenWallace
ATC asks if you can go direct to a fix and your response is " No but we are equipped for Radar Vectors."
Kansas City Approach Controller and you spend the whole time in their sector talking about the Chiefs.
Kansas City Approach Controller and you spend the whole time in their sector talking about the Chiefs.
04-13-2012, 08:05 AM
#87
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: Limo Driver. Left
Posts: 44
Originally Posted by Jetjok
Or, You might be a freight dog if….
. You’re flying modern, widebody equipment on worldwide routes.
. Most of your flying is daylight stuff, but it doesn’t matter because you can’t see the ground while flying over India or China anyway.
. You start to wonder if these planes can still be landed at night.
. A Falcon 50 at FL 430 boasts that the ride is smooth at his altitude, and you reply “how’s the pay at FL 430… silence follows.
. You are marshaled into your spot in Bangkok, met by hoards of folks ready to unload your jet, while you get to follow this fantastic little beauty through customs, on the way to your limo, for your ride to the Grand Sukhumvit Hotel, just up the street from the Soy Cowboy.
. Center asks you how the ride is and you respond “hold on, I’ll ask the packages.”
. They run out of popcorn in Memphis and all 4800 of you go out on strike.
. You wear the same shirt for a week, and no one complains.
. Hanoi Control mispronounces your call sign, but you can’t hear it anyway because you’re watching “Return of the Jedi” on your portable DVD player.
. Your Global Operations Control Center tells you it’s perfectly ok to push an hour early, even though you know that there’s no room for you to park when you get to Chicago, and you do.
. You wake up in the sleep room and before you realize it you’ve gone down the hall to the john in your birthday suit.
. Almost nothing you own is in your flight bag. It’s all in your first or second wife’s house. The one that you bought for her (him.)
. Guys you’ve not heard from in 10 years are all of a sudden calling you asking for a referral.
. You’re always the first to land after the hurricane, snow storm, volcano eruption, start of the Gulf War, etc, etc, and you love it!
. You fly into Subic Bay and never request a visual, then cab ride over to Angeles City in the middle of the night for your 46 hour layover.
. You get home after a 12 day trip and go to sleep and wake up 2 days later, with a very big smile on your face.
. You’re flying modern, widebody equipment on worldwide routes.
. Most of your flying is daylight stuff, but it doesn’t matter because you can’t see the ground while flying over India or China anyway.
. You start to wonder if these planes can still be landed at night.
. A Falcon 50 at FL 430 boasts that the ride is smooth at his altitude, and you reply “how’s the pay at FL 430… silence follows.
. You are marshaled into your spot in Bangkok, met by hoards of folks ready to unload your jet, while you get to follow this fantastic little beauty through customs, on the way to your limo, for your ride to the Grand Sukhumvit Hotel, just up the street from the Soy Cowboy.
. Center asks you how the ride is and you respond “hold on, I’ll ask the packages.”
. They run out of popcorn in Memphis and all 4800 of you go out on strike.
. You wear the same shirt for a week, and no one complains.
. Hanoi Control mispronounces your call sign, but you can’t hear it anyway because you’re watching “Return of the Jedi” on your portable DVD player.
. Your Global Operations Control Center tells you it’s perfectly ok to push an hour early, even though you know that there’s no room for you to park when you get to Chicago, and you do.
. You wake up in the sleep room and before you realize it you’ve gone down the hall to the john in your birthday suit.
. Almost nothing you own is in your flight bag. It’s all in your first or second wife’s house. The one that you bought for her (him.)
. Guys you’ve not heard from in 10 years are all of a sudden calling you asking for a referral.
. You’re always the first to land after the hurricane, snow storm, volcano eruption, start of the Gulf War, etc, etc, and you love it!
. You fly into Subic Bay and never request a visual, then cab ride over to Angeles City in the middle of the night for your 46 hour layover.
. You get home after a 12 day trip and go to sleep and wake up 2 days later, with a very big smile on your face.
I don't think the term "freight dog" was intended for you, my friend. But for the others, working like dogs while flying freight. Oh, and for $80 a day after taxes.
04-13-2012, 09:14 AM
#88
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Joined APC: May 2011
Posts: 42
Originally Posted by Earl81
On that same note you say "unable direct ....fix, /A.." and after a long pause from the current controller you hear an "old timer" come on who knows what to do with someone without GPS
04-13-2012, 09:15 AM
#89
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Originally Posted by Earl81
On that same note you say "unable direct ....fix, /A.." and after a long pause from the current controller you hear an "old timer" come on who knows what to do with someone without GPS
Originally Posted by Manny
I don't think the term "freight dog" was intended for you, my friend. But for the others, working like dogs while flying freight. Oh, and for $80 a day after taxes.
WOW when I flew freight a loooonnnggg time ago I was being paid $38 a day for flying a Cheetah. LOL
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