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Old 4th January 2013 | 10:10
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Your 'jumpseater' never realised why you were so happy happy to give him a free ride..
You call your hotel shuttle bus on final.
Approach controller calls you a 'fast moving metroliner'
When others use autoland,you do your own,by yourself really...
When you just fuelled,loaded your own Sa227 and company advises you to take off within 10 as the airport manager is about to close the airport due to snow.
When you are told to fly to a nasty cold and windy place and you are saved by the destination handling saying they wont offload you because of wind...
When sleeping in an fbo conference on the floor becomes the norm.(invested in a air bed at the end).
When you have stopped logging night time when you started flying for an airline..

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Old 5th January 2013 | 20:24
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Quote"If real airlines wait for you to land first to test the braking action."

Oh yeah.

Many, many years flying into BUF and SYR in the winter time and generally the FIRST plane in during the week.

Now that I think about it. No matter how many companies or what airplanes we had, I always had a trip into BUF and SYR during the winter time!

"Retirement" is good.

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Old 5th January 2013 | 20:27
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Didn't see it mentioned but when a new aircraft shows up in the fleet and it was the best thing you've seen on your fleet since forever, and then you find out it was their "junker" of the fleet from the company you got it from!

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Old 7th January 2013 | 21:13
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Good one, ADulay....
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Old 8th January 2013 | 19:34
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You wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
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Old 9th January 2013 | 13:19
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Even when at home, through force of habit, you heat up water in a coke can, with an end cut off, in your oven to make coffee.........
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Old 21st January 2013 | 12:25
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You get in the family car, fasten your seat belt and call for the check list
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Old 21st January 2013 | 19:23
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What is this 'check list' of which you speak?
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Old 21st January 2013 | 20:08
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"You get in the family car, fasten your seat belt and call for the check list"
Just like John Travolta!
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Old 1st February 2013 | 14:18
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....when you are talking about good places to eat, you are talking about good breakfast instead of dinner.
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Old 2nd February 2013 | 17:34
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...........when, despite flying a shiny, new Global Express all you talk about is the old DC8. (Anyone got a job on an 8?)
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Old 3rd February 2013 | 00:14
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"Breakfast" is a steak, baked Potato, and a jug of beer.
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Old 5th February 2013 | 15:33
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The company screws up and get you a Hotel room with a Hot Tub in it so, you fill it with water and soap and wash your clothes.
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Old 6th February 2013 | 14:12
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From: Between INV and SAM
You find yourself fantasizing about the cabin crew in the passenger plane on the adjacent stand
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Old 7th February 2013 | 14:13
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You know how to make coffee..
You know how to hand fly..
You know how to do a loadsheet..


But you don't know why the hell you're up at an hour even the clock denies knowing about..
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Old 7th February 2013 | 18:24
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From: FL280 and below
great!!!

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please, more!!!!!!!!!
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Old 7th February 2013 | 18:32
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When you finally get home you get mad trying to get an outside line dialing "9" or "0".
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Old 14th February 2013 | 14:37
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When you still believe in YOU flying the airplane, love to see a real artificial horizon, and you are happy your maths do work.
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Old 15th February 2013 | 23:51
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...your aftershave is a Sani-Wipe...and you call the scent "Nighthawk".

...you fly a civilian Herc and you hope the inbound plane has 10" of pressurization and an operating hotcup. The other deferred items don't matter.

...you know how to tweak the autopilot pots on that Herc with a Swiss Army knife.

...you warm your inflight meal on the hotcup, because there is no oven or it is "deferred".

...you can take a crap in moderate turbulence while hanging on to the Herc's 9G net without turning your ass blue...another use for Nighthawk should the turbulence be slightly more than moderate.

...you know what a Monarch door is on a cargo DC-8.

...you know what a BMEP stain is.

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Old 16th February 2013 | 11:37
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You know why the hole is drilled in the porta potty valve!
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