What hobbies on overnights? Just a fun convo
09-24-2019 | 04:39 PM
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Check into your room, put your stuff away, sit on bed worrying about your debt/income ratio, if UA will ever call back and if Jimmy Johns is still open. (It never is) Call the wife who isn't that interested where you are and say goodnight. Then turn the TV on doze off to a rerun of ice road truckers until you remember you forgot to plug in your ipad. Get up and do that, but now you're not tired anymore. Show time in 4 hours. Rinse and repeat.
09-24-2019 | 05:18 PM
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Check into your room, put your stuff away, sit on bed worrying about your debt/income ratio, if UA will ever call back and if Jimmy Johns is still open. (It never is) Call the wife who isn't that interested where you are and say goodnight. Then turn the TV on doze off to a rerun of ice road truckers until you remember you forgot to plug in your ipad. Get up and do that, but now you're not tired anymore. Show time in 4 hours. Rinse and repeat.
09-24-2019 | 06:10 PM
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Check into your room, put your stuff away, sit on bed worrying about your debt/income ratio, if UA will ever call back and if Jimmy Johns is still open. (It never is) Call the wife who isn't that interested where you are and say goodnight. Then turn the TV on doze off to a rerun of ice road truckers until you remember you forgot to plug in your ipad. Get up and do that, but now you're not tired anymore. Show time in 4 hours. Rinse and repeat.
09-25-2019 | 02:30 AM
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Good grief. What a bunch of sniveling whiners. Get out of your %^*+#* rooms and enjoy life. Your Airline is sending you places, enjoy them. Is every place Paris, Hong Kong or London? No. But there is stuff to do even on a regional budget and in “Fly Over Country”. One of my favorite overnights was one in OKC when my crew went to a minor league game in Brickyard. It was maybe $5 to get in and I bought the beer. Hot dogs were also cheap. Another time an all female crew “made” me go to a fashion exposition in Montreal as “punishment” for me making them ride bikes with me to a brewery. Another time an all gay crew took me around to gay bars. Not my cup of tea, but it was a memorable experience and they bought the beer for a change.
It’s funny, the regional pilots who won’t leave their rooms are the same ones who stay in the hotel when we go to Hong Kong, Istanbul and Tokyo. Life is for the living. Put down the video games and go out and live.
It’s funny, the regional pilots who won’t leave their rooms are the same ones who stay in the hotel when we go to Hong Kong, Istanbul and Tokyo. Life is for the living. Put down the video games and go out and live.
09-25-2019 | 04:54 AM
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Good grief. What a bunch of sniveling whiners. Get out of your %^*+#* rooms and enjoy life. Your Airline is sending you places, enjoy them. Is every place Paris, Hong Kong or London? No. But there is stuff to do even on a regional budget and in “Fly Over Country”. One of my favorite overnights was one in OKC when my crew went to a minor league game in Brickyard. It was maybe $5 to get in and I bought the beer. Hot dogs were also cheap. Another time an all female crew “made” me go to a fashion exposition in Montreal as “punishment” for me making them ride bikes with me to a brewery. Another time an all gay crew took me around to gay bars. Not my cup of tea, but it was a memorable experience and they bought the beer for a change.
It’s funny, the regional pilots who won’t leave their rooms are the same ones who stay in the hotel when we go to Hong Kong, Istanbul and Tokyo. Life is for the living. Put down the video games and go out and live.
It’s funny, the regional pilots who won’t leave their rooms are the same ones who stay in the hotel when we go to Hong Kong, Istanbul and Tokyo. Life is for the living. Put down the video games and go out and live.
09-25-2019 | 05:31 AM
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Check into your room, put your stuff away, sit on bed worrying about your debt/income ratio, if UA will ever call back and if Jimmy Johns is still open. (It never is) Call the wife who isn't that interested where you are and say goodnight. Then turn the TV on doze off to a rerun of ice road truckers until you remember you forgot to plug in your ipad. Get up and do that, but now you're not tired anymore. Show time in 4 hours. Rinse and repeat.
09-25-2019 | 05:52 AM
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One of my more memorable layovers while at the regional was the day I found a regulation size frisbee for a dollar at the grocery store down the street from the hotel. Bought the frisbee and a case of beer. Went back to the truck-stop hotel we were staying at and the CA and I spent the entire evening throwing frisbee in the vacant lot behind the hotel while drinking that entire case of beer. Simple pleasures, y'all. 
09-25-2019 | 05:54 AM
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One of my more memorable layovers while at the regional was the day I found a regulation size frisbee for a dollar at the grocery store down the street from the hotel. Bought the frisbee and a case of beer. Went back to the truck-stop hotel we were staying at and the CA and I spent the entire evening throwing frisbee in the vacant lot behind the hotel while drinking that entire case of beer. Simple pleasures, y'all.
Filler.
09-25-2019 | 05:56 AM
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Read. Study a little. Rather than cramming once a year I try to do a little hear and there. If you have major minimums and have your apps in knock out some tech questions.
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