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Narrow Runaway are you on a 7X, PH-reg by any chance? Your "average day at the office" sounds very familiar to the one I've heard from a crew who visited this sad town here up north! Lucky me I am leaving too! 
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Judging by what I saw - Air2000 in the late 90's-early 2000s (those guys partied pretty hard down route!)
Failing that Singapore Airlines Cargo on the A scale that was, or as someone mentioned Fedex on the triple is a hard gig to better it would seem.
I just want out of the relentless ****e that is LoCo.
Any half decent ME outfit will do me these days...............
Failing that Singapore Airlines Cargo on the A scale that was, or as someone mentioned Fedex on the triple is a hard gig to better it would seem.
I just want out of the relentless ****e that is LoCo.
Any half decent ME outfit will do me these days...............
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Lead solo pilot for the US Navy Blue Angels. The guy who sneaks up on the audience from out of sight low and in afterburner, after the narrator has beckoned the audience to keep a close eye on the formation as they do a slow roll over the runway. The noise and startle factor from the crowd is awesome!
Then, of course, are the adoring fans, the pretty girls and awestruck kids lining up at the fence after the show is over to get autographs and to get close to the Navy studs in their skin tight flight suits.
The added bonus is being around other very good pilots, fantastic old and new aircraft, and the overall atmosphere of the air show environment. What a gig!
Then, of course, are the adoring fans, the pretty girls and awestruck kids lining up at the fence after the show is over to get autographs and to get close to the Navy studs in their skin tight flight suits.
The added bonus is being around other very good pilots, fantastic old and new aircraft, and the overall atmosphere of the air show environment. What a gig!
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Here Here,
Nothing exists like BMed now. Only airline to have First class on a 320.
The days when we could open a few more bottles to take off with us in Tbilisi plus the left over cheese for the room party. The clanking of bottles heralded our passage to the crew bus.
Exciting nights out in clubs where guns were a regular sight. Trying to persuade the girls it was not a good idea to accept a lift from some nice men in a blacked out BMW!
Some fantastic food too, it really was organic as they grew nothing else. I've still not tasted tomatoes and cucumber quite like you can get there to accompany sturgeon grilled on a wood fire.
Beirut too was so exciting. Classic when the BBC reporter in his flack jacket on the roof of the hotel asked the girls to move out of sight for a couple of minutes as their bikini clad sunbathing was ruining his shot.
Good luck to all wherever you are now.
Nothing exists like BMed now. Only airline to have First class on a 320.
The days when we could open a few more bottles to take off with us in Tbilisi plus the left over cheese for the room party. The clanking of bottles heralded our passage to the crew bus.
Exciting nights out in clubs where guns were a regular sight. Trying to persuade the girls it was not a good idea to accept a lift from some nice men in a blacked out BMW!
Some fantastic food too, it really was organic as they grew nothing else. I've still not tasted tomatoes and cucumber quite like you can get there to accompany sturgeon grilled on a wood fire.
Beirut too was so exciting. Classic when the BBC reporter in his flack jacket on the roof of the hotel asked the girls to move out of sight for a couple of minutes as their bikini clad sunbathing was ruining his shot.
Good luck to all wherever you are now.
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Excalibur in the 90's! With Captain L as my chief pilot!
But more than happy at the mo, B757/B767 short/long-haul to India/Far East based in the Maldives!
But more than happy at the mo, B757/B767 short/long-haul to India/Far East based in the Maldives!
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Same as JB007 for me. Excalibur with Capt L
Unfortunately nowadays his Maldives is my wet and windy UK! Still, a good job on the orange buses IMHO.
Unfortunately nowadays his Maldives is my wet and windy UK! Still, a good job on the orange buses IMHO.
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The FedEx guys who used to be based in the Phillipines had a pretty sweet deal. The money they were hauling in and then to be living in a low cost area like Subic Bay...what a deal! You could live like a king!
Back in my Air Force days on the old C-141, we had a trip (807 missions) where we started off out of Travis AFB (near the San Francisco Bay area) flew to Honolulu -24 hours off; on to Guam - 24 off; Yokata Air Base (Tokyo) - 24 off ( enough time to buy our electronics goods - stereos, speakers, cameras); on to Osan AB Korea- 24 off (buy heavy blankets, silk pajamas, nighties, sheets, and custom fit leathers for biking); fly to Clark Air Base Phillipines -24 off for buying custom tailored mahogony airplane models, shell lamps, papasan wicker chairs, and other "sundry items"; then sometimes off to Kwajelein, or Midway or some other south Pacific atoll or island to drop off supplies; then on to Hawaii for another 24, before heading back to Travis, then Norton to drop off our loot. It was a great trip, fantastic shopping and a 10 day tour of the Pacific.
If we could start up a Pacific Airways flying 747-8s, 777-300ERs, and 787s with flying similiar to that - throw in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Hong Kong, and a must stopover in Anchorage for fresh salmon and crab legs, along with a Los Angeles or Honolulu basing, I would be in pilot heaven.
Back in my Air Force days on the old C-141, we had a trip (807 missions) where we started off out of Travis AFB (near the San Francisco Bay area) flew to Honolulu -24 hours off; on to Guam - 24 off; Yokata Air Base (Tokyo) - 24 off ( enough time to buy our electronics goods - stereos, speakers, cameras); on to Osan AB Korea- 24 off (buy heavy blankets, silk pajamas, nighties, sheets, and custom fit leathers for biking); fly to Clark Air Base Phillipines -24 off for buying custom tailored mahogony airplane models, shell lamps, papasan wicker chairs, and other "sundry items"; then sometimes off to Kwajelein, or Midway or some other south Pacific atoll or island to drop off supplies; then on to Hawaii for another 24, before heading back to Travis, then Norton to drop off our loot. It was a great trip, fantastic shopping and a 10 day tour of the Pacific.
If we could start up a Pacific Airways flying 747-8s, 777-300ERs, and 787s with flying similiar to that - throw in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Hong Kong, and a must stopover in Anchorage for fresh salmon and crab legs, along with a Los Angeles or Honolulu basing, I would be in pilot heaven.
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I know this is not going to be popular but here it is.
11 years with Ryanair, LTC, home every night, great flying with good guys and almost brand new aircraft. 5 on 4 off never been interfered with without my permission. Recently had three separate sets of (certificated) sickness with no comment and no salary deductions.
Training and checking second to none.
P40 for the last 3 years over 100k and only been called on a handful of standbys in the last 11 years. Why so much negative press ?
Don't get me wrong I would have loved a command with Imperial Airways, always been called sir and eat my lunch with silver cutlery off of bone china plates but times have moved on. I am just enjoying watching my boys grow up and keeping the wolf from the door the best way I can.
Sorry if that goes against the militant know nothing's but there it is, I comment as it is. Ryanair is not the only Airline ( or company) I have worked for.
11 years with Ryanair, LTC, home every night, great flying with good guys and almost brand new aircraft. 5 on 4 off never been interfered with without my permission. Recently had three separate sets of (certificated) sickness with no comment and no salary deductions.
Training and checking second to none.
P40 for the last 3 years over 100k and only been called on a handful of standbys in the last 11 years. Why so much negative press ?
Don't get me wrong I would have loved a command with Imperial Airways, always been called sir and eat my lunch with silver cutlery off of bone china plates but times have moved on. I am just enjoying watching my boys grow up and keeping the wolf from the door the best way I can.
Sorry if that goes against the militant know nothing's but there it is, I comment as it is. Ryanair is not the only Airline ( or company) I have worked for.