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FreightDog41
6th Dec 2009, 15:34
There's a book out based on Freight Dogs called "Hauling Checks." Check it out.
Based on this forum or freight dogs in general?
FreightDog41
6th Dec 2009, 20:02
freight dogs in general
Just finished it, easy reading, but all fictional just in case that you'd expect something else.
joco
stilton
16th Dec 2009, 00:44
Shame it's fictional although it's interesting to see anyone shine a light on this (almost unknown) corner of the Aviation business.
I spent several years single pilot flying checks in dubious Aircraft and all kinds of weather. Great experience if you live through it.
It would be great to see a non fiction book covering this as it will all soon be history.
The fictional does not take the juice out of it! I quite enjoyed it.
My point was that people should not expect it to be a little window (or reality check) of the cargo flying.
Happy reading :)
OverRun
20th Dec 2009, 14:48
Found it on Amazon:
I'm a cargo pilot. In the industry, I'm known as a "Freight Dog." I fly canceled checks and other types of high-value cargo around the country, mostly at night, in airplanes that are older than I am. Flying freight--or "work" as we call it--in small, twin-engine aircraft is a lesser known side of the aviation world. Our day starts when banker's hours end. Thousands of flights move millions of pounds of work from city to city every night while the rest of the country is asleep. We're out there in the freezing rain getting de-iced when you're laying down for bed. We're sweeping the snow off our wings with a broom at three in the morning. That horrible thunderstorm you heard last night while you were sleeping, we were flying through it. The fog you woke up to in the early morning hours, we were landing in it.
Hauling Checks is a comedy about the darker side of aviation. A cast of degenerate pilots, who work for a shady night time air cargo operation, take you on a flight through the unfriendly skies. The pilots abuse every Reg in the book in their quest to make deadlines for their high value cargo. As the company falls on hard times, management resorts to questionable measures to save the failing airline.
Amazon.com: Hauling Checks: a novel (9781449563332): Alex Stone: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Hauling-Checks-novel-Alex-Stone/dp/1449563333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261323951&sr=8-1)
I guess that is my Xmas present to myself.