What I have to look forward to BEFORE I make it! (More light hearted humour...)
I thought I had made it !
White Rat on the tail but not as many seats or the RoC I would like.
Came home one afternoon after shooting 3 GPs/NPA's diverting going back getting in on the fourth one.
When walking into my lift where I live, I was asked by a lovely New Australian left behind by some failed former state of the USSR.
Vot are you da lift driver !
White Rat on the tail but not as many seats or the RoC I would like.
Came home one afternoon after shooting 3 GPs/NPA's diverting going back getting in on the fourth one.
When walking into my lift where I live, I was asked by a lovely New Australian left behind by some failed former state of the USSR.
Vot are you da lift driver !
1. Living in a place that you have to describe where it is.
2. Earning a salary that a cleaner would turn his nose up at.
3. Discovering that things like renewals ,uniforms ,allowances etc don't get paid even though the company is a responent to the award.
4. What's the award say? Ha ha really !
5. Don't write that up/ write it up in such a way that the aircraft can still be flown.
6. Air vent on your face the whole way due smell of passengers.
7. You white c**t !
8. Accommodation that housing commission tenants would refuse to live in.
9. Where is the superannuation they were supposed to pay me.
10.What did that flying school owner say about time to the airlines again ?
2. Earning a salary that a cleaner would turn his nose up at.
3. Discovering that things like renewals ,uniforms ,allowances etc don't get paid even though the company is a responent to the award.
4. What's the award say? Ha ha really !
5. Don't write that up/ write it up in such a way that the aircraft can still be flown.
6. Air vent on your face the whole way due smell of passengers.
7. You white c**t !
8. Accommodation that housing commission tenants would refuse to live in.
9. Where is the superannuation they were supposed to pay me.
10.What did that flying school owner say about time to the airlines again ?
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Living in the aircraft due to your 17K a year. Finding it hard to sleep at night, trying to ignore the mozzies and fuel smell as the flying ants swim in your sweat just so you can get half a nights sleep cause you have a busy day coming up. It is night and the temp is 30, humidity 90%.
When the boss finds out you are sleeping in his a/c, threatening to charge you rent until you explain he is getting a security guard for his ALL his fleet for no charge - there is another driver living in the other machine.
Was living in one of those portable sheds once, half asleep when I felt something on my face, at first thinking it may have been one of the cute pax from that day peddling my ears. Soon realised it was a a bird eating spider the size of my hand crawling down my face. Only had a tee shirt on (for easy access to crown jewels?). Jumped up like a mad man, wacked this thing and it goes down my shirt. It is so dark, you can not see your hand in front of you and this mongrel is keen to get out from the shirt as well, only inches above my mongrel. Finally get him out, scramble for matches to light my candle - never saw him/her again.
Charactor building or soul destroying - probably depends on your attitude and more importantly, if the selling of your soul actually ends up leading to a better life a couple of years down the track.
For me, the jury is still out!
When the boss finds out you are sleeping in his a/c, threatening to charge you rent until you explain he is getting a security guard for his ALL his fleet for no charge - there is another driver living in the other machine.
Was living in one of those portable sheds once, half asleep when I felt something on my face, at first thinking it may have been one of the cute pax from that day peddling my ears. Soon realised it was a a bird eating spider the size of my hand crawling down my face. Only had a tee shirt on (for easy access to crown jewels?). Jumped up like a mad man, wacked this thing and it goes down my shirt. It is so dark, you can not see your hand in front of you and this mongrel is keen to get out from the shirt as well, only inches above my mongrel. Finally get him out, scramble for matches to light my candle - never saw him/her again.
Charactor building or soul destroying - probably depends on your attitude and more importantly, if the selling of your soul actually ends up leading to a better life a couple of years down the track.
For me, the jury is still out!
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And then there are the good times:
- The face on your student after their first solo.
- Cruising home, high altitude, 40kt tail wind, fantastic view, getting paid.
- The 'Nod of Recognition / Sympathy' from a regional pilot when you shut down next to them. He's probably just thinking "That thing's still waiting for the respray they talked about 10 years ago"
- The face on your student after their first solo.
- Cruising home, high altitude, 40kt tail wind, fantastic view, getting paid.
- The 'Nod of Recognition / Sympathy' from a regional pilot when you shut down next to them. He's probably just thinking "That thing's still waiting for the respray they talked about 10 years ago"
Oh please, this is suppose to be light hearted humour looking at all the bad things to go through.
Start a new thread titled "I'm still new and haven't realised how crappy this job is yet because I still get a wet eye watching the sun come up above the clouds as I take long strokes of my pole"
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Haha, Ibex!
If I HAD a "pole" I'm sure I would be stroking it after half the things I've read!
They sound character building to say the least, and to be honest, I can hardly bloody wait!!!
I think I have the first qualification/pre-requisite underway... a dry sense of humour...
(and I have the ability to live on Two-Minute-Noodles for an indeterminate time which it sounds like I'll need as well)
Thanks for all your postings, keep em coming!
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If I HAD a "pole" I'm sure I would be stroking it after half the things I've read!
They sound character building to say the least, and to be honest, I can hardly bloody wait!!!
I think I have the first qualification/pre-requisite underway... a dry sense of humour...
(and I have the ability to live on Two-Minute-Noodles for an indeterminate time which it sounds like I'll need as well)
Thanks for all your postings, keep em coming!
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Kiwi Chick, I can assure you it aint that much fun being treated like a dog by some, but definately not all employers.
If your first job (normally the case) is working for a low life, the glamour of this so called profession will wear off in about a month. Unfortunately, until you get, say 1,000TT and 250 multi, you are not worth a bucket of cold pi$$ to anyone, and you will be treated accordinately.
It will break your heart seeing your friends who have invested a small percentage of what you have in time and money moving ahead in their careers while you struggle.
However, it may be worthwhile 10 years down the track. Maybe, maybe not.
Hopefully, if you do actually end up with a decent career, your friends will not forget back when they were buying real estate, going on holidays and building on their future, you were living a life that no human should have to put up with. That is the only reason I envy cadets - NO ONE should ever have to stoop so low just to get some hours the log book. They will never trully know - lucky buggars.
If I had a dollar every time those who care about me told me to give it away and get a real job, I would be driving a Ferrari?
If your first job (normally the case) is working for a low life, the glamour of this so called profession will wear off in about a month. Unfortunately, until you get, say 1,000TT and 250 multi, you are not worth a bucket of cold pi$$ to anyone, and you will be treated accordinately.
It will break your heart seeing your friends who have invested a small percentage of what you have in time and money moving ahead in their careers while you struggle.
However, it may be worthwhile 10 years down the track. Maybe, maybe not.
Hopefully, if you do actually end up with a decent career, your friends will not forget back when they were buying real estate, going on holidays and building on their future, you were living a life that no human should have to put up with. That is the only reason I envy cadets - NO ONE should ever have to stoop so low just to get some hours the log book. They will never trully know - lucky buggars.
If I had a dollar every time those who care about me told me to give it away and get a real job, I would be driving a Ferrari?
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Hey Boney...
All joking aside, I live with three Flying Instructors, who are at varying levels of "being treated like a dog" by their employers.
My partner is one of them and I have a fairly intimate idea of how bad it is JUST at the beginning, let alone what is still to come.
But it's all about flying, and would I do anything else?
No.
All joking aside, I live with three Flying Instructors, who are at varying levels of "being treated like a dog" by their employers.
My partner is one of them and I have a fairly intimate idea of how bad it is JUST at the beginning, let alone what is still to come.
But it's all about flying, and would I do anything else?
No.
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Watching a 110kg ringer (who the previous night downed a bottle of rum and knocked out 2 other guys at the bar) squeal like a little girl as you throw the 182 around desperately trying to turn back a mad ass cow that has her own agenda. Whats unusual about 60 degrees of bank?
Informing the Jillaroo that the little red light on the dash (high voltage) is actually a button to eject the wings, when she says you're lying casually go to press it, do you think i could get my hand anywhere near that light?
Explaining to the manager why he can't shoot out of the plane, and why the fenced off airstrip can't be used as a holding paddock.
Carrying 3 tubs of stinking horse meat to be dropped out one piece at a time by another ringer spending more time vomiting down the chute than putting the baits out.
Gotta love it!
Informing the Jillaroo that the little red light on the dash (high voltage) is actually a button to eject the wings, when she says you're lying casually go to press it, do you think i could get my hand anywhere near that light?
Explaining to the manager why he can't shoot out of the plane, and why the fenced off airstrip can't be used as a holding paddock.
Carrying 3 tubs of stinking horse meat to be dropped out one piece at a time by another ringer spending more time vomiting down the chute than putting the baits out.
Gotta love it!
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Bwahahahaha, OJA, thats why I decided to stay in GA.
sounds like what I do all day most days.
If the money was better, I would probably retire doing just that.
(PS. I am rather lucky in that I used to be the 110kg ringer......... and now the only differance is I fly as well as drink rum and carry on)
sounds like what I do all day most days.
If the money was better, I would probably retire doing just that.
(PS. I am rather lucky in that I used to be the 110kg ringer......... and now the only differance is I fly as well as drink rum and carry on)
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Look forward to 2000klm on the stuart hiway being a breeze.
Another favourite is the living out of your car because you can no longer afford a backpackers. You are then faced with the challenge of presenting yourself neatly for the standard rejection down at the airport. This involves having a shave at a service station in town somewhere and then changeing into slacks and shirt.
Or how about the boss that asks you if you had headwinds both ways when you took 5.4 instead of 5.3 and he's chargeing 7.2. A personal favourite.
Another favourite is the living out of your car because you can no longer afford a backpackers. You are then faced with the challenge of presenting yourself neatly for the standard rejection down at the airport. This involves having a shave at a service station in town somewhere and then changeing into slacks and shirt.
Or how about the boss that asks you if you had headwinds both ways when you took 5.4 instead of 5.3 and he's chargeing 7.2. A personal favourite.
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Found the best way to deal with them type blokes is to tell em to **** off, give em a wop on the aircleaner and move to the next servo.
usually they will knock hell outta ya in a referance, and the rest of the aviatin community will think ya a bonza bloke and hire ya, coz ya got standards mate.
usually they will knock hell outta ya in a referance, and the rest of the aviatin community will think ya a bonza bloke and hire ya, coz ya got standards mate.
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A few more for your list kiwi chick...
1. having a beaten up early 80s sigma (or the equivalent) held together with wire and gaffa tape
2. driving around a car registed in another state for at least 2 years because you don't know how long the job will last and you can't afford to reregister it.
3. selling your guitar and be left only with a crappy nylon string acoustic, so that you can afford to eat plain pasta between jobs (at least you can still have the soul to sing the GA blues, man!)
4. having all your mail redirected by your parents (or the eqivalent) for years because you don't have a permanent address (or can't stand the thought of calling your current place permanent)
5. Thinking your uni days of no money and lots of drinking were luxury compared to GA
6. Inventing a 'job' such as 'cleaner' so you don't have to talk aviation to wannabes, interested old codgers or know-it-all businessmen
7. Meeting 'characters' at aero clubs that you would never have dreamed existed if you had taken an office job in the city (I swear the first time you meet 'em you'll think that they are trying to take the mickey out of the stereotypical bushy!)
8. Trying to get money for months on end, out of operators who don't pay their staff.
9A. if you're a girl: ditching your current boyfriend so you can utilise your assets to help get a job and twin time....until you fall for some stupid pimpled-faced flying instructor at the local aeroclub and ruin both of your careers.
9B. If you're a bloke: Unwittingly lowering your standards to an all time low and thinking that it would be just easier to have a wife... until you get back to civilisation and realise what you've been missing!!
1. having a beaten up early 80s sigma (or the equivalent) held together with wire and gaffa tape
2. driving around a car registed in another state for at least 2 years because you don't know how long the job will last and you can't afford to reregister it.
3. selling your guitar and be left only with a crappy nylon string acoustic, so that you can afford to eat plain pasta between jobs (at least you can still have the soul to sing the GA blues, man!)
4. having all your mail redirected by your parents (or the eqivalent) for years because you don't have a permanent address (or can't stand the thought of calling your current place permanent)
5. Thinking your uni days of no money and lots of drinking were luxury compared to GA
6. Inventing a 'job' such as 'cleaner' so you don't have to talk aviation to wannabes, interested old codgers or know-it-all businessmen
7. Meeting 'characters' at aero clubs that you would never have dreamed existed if you had taken an office job in the city (I swear the first time you meet 'em you'll think that they are trying to take the mickey out of the stereotypical bushy!)
8. Trying to get money for months on end, out of operators who don't pay their staff.
9A. if you're a girl: ditching your current boyfriend so you can utilise your assets to help get a job and twin time....until you fall for some stupid pimpled-faced flying instructor at the local aeroclub and ruin both of your careers.
9B. If you're a bloke: Unwittingly lowering your standards to an all time low and thinking that it would be just easier to have a wife... until you get back to civilisation and realise what you've been missing!!
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oh that one about the number plates is a classic.
vic licence, west aus plates living in the territory.....yeah right explain that to the cops.
Even beter try getting an asic card. Do you know how many places I've lived in the last 5 years. How do you describe a donga or caravan that has no address.
Try doing an id check with the Australian Tax office over the phone. They start asking stuff like your mailing address. The number of P.o. boxes I've had.....
It just goes on and on.
vic licence, west aus plates living in the territory.....yeah right explain that to the cops.
Even beter try getting an asic card. Do you know how many places I've lived in the last 5 years. How do you describe a donga or caravan that has no address.
Try doing an id check with the Australian Tax office over the phone. They start asking stuff like your mailing address. The number of P.o. boxes I've had.....
It just goes on and on.
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Vic licence, NSW plates, living in QLD, driving in NT with a SA trailer...
Oh...and repeatedly looking at your watch because a passenger is late and you're going to miss some day time TV show that you're addicted to!
Oh...and repeatedly looking at your watch because a passenger is late and you're going to miss some day time TV show that you're addicted to!
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Hahaha!
I've ALREADY fallen for the Flying Instructor whilst "using my assests", tho he's not pimply-faced and I didn't get a job or twin time out of it...?
Where did I go wrong...?!!!! LMAO
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I've ALREADY fallen for the Flying Instructor whilst "using my assests", tho he's not pimply-faced and I didn't get a job or twin time out of it...?
Where did I go wrong...?!!!! LMAO
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Sounds like Kiwi Chick has her own version of the bold and the beautiful...it doesn't take 'em long does it?
Reminds me of an old Confucius aviation saying...
Man who walk through turnstyle sideway is going to Bangkok.
...no, no...hang on...
Never trust a flying instructor with a female student under 50!
Reminds me of an old Confucius aviation saying...
Man who walk through turnstyle sideway is going to Bangkok.
...no, no...hang on...
Never trust a flying instructor with a female student under 50!
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Good to see me old mate Confucius get a mention.
I have spent my life trying to test the veracity of his phrophesy "Woman who stand naked on edge of cliff usually get knocked off", but alas, no success so far!
I have spent my life trying to test the veracity of his phrophesy "Woman who stand naked on edge of cliff usually get knocked off", but alas, no success so far!