Remembered another few...
... when you are asked if you want to take a plane back to Darwin for a 100 hourly, but stop and weigh up whether a couple of nights at The Vic etc is worth remembering how to fly in CTA.
... you look at the MAF pilots and think they are on a good wicket. House, wife, and an electric bowser. Man that's civilised. Maybe I could fake the god bit.
... Company procedure following a forced landing is to take the pilot to the pub and get him mightily pissed first, fill in the ASIR tomorrow.
... Pax manifests only ever have 3 surnames, only the initials change, eg: Wunungmurra G, Wunungmurra A, Wunungmurra F, Wunungmurra infant x3.
... You are filling in a pax manifest (Wunungmurra G, Wunungmurra S...) then you get to the outstation worker that is coming along for the day and think, Hmm, Rory McLenihan, thats an unusual name!
... You are filling in a pax manifest and don't have time for all the stuffing around so today you will write down the names of five AFL players. Yesterday it was English cricketers, tomorrow it will be formula one drivers names.
... When you go to the barge landing on Friday afternoon even though you don't have any freight arriving, you just don't want to miss the biggest social event of the week.
... You think paying $20 for a fried chook at the community takeaway is reasonable. After all it comes with a baked potato.
... You discuss over beers with your colleagues which Darwin funeral director has the best coffins to fit in C206's.
... You and your colleagues watch the new guy carefully and play it cool for a week or two.... he used to be an instructor.
Last edited by ITCZ; 2nd Oct 2004 at 17:42.