Hauling checks-a novel

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mikecweb said:
Says the freight dawg for a week.
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Oh SNAP:bandit:. There are plenty of stories out there to be told about freight doggin. He just went ahead and published them. I may buy the e-version for 5 bux, but wouldn't spend more than that for stories that I have gone through as well.
 
My hard copy arrived today.

Needs an editor, badly.

But, entertaining so far and kudos for getting it done.

The description of the inside of a freighter is spot on, although thankfully our mechanics haven't resorted to using rope for door handles. Yet. :)

Hopefully everyone remembers it's fiction. Nothing drives me nuts more than people thinking we're absolute reg-busting cowboys who fly through thunderstorms for fun.

I'll grab some beers to help get past the copy editing issues (I used to do that for a living, so I'm over-sensitive) and finish it up tonight.

Seriously man, congrats on getting it done.
 
woutlaw said:
My hard copy arrived today.

Needs an editor, badly.

But, entertaining so far and kudos for getting it done.

The description of the inside of a freighter is spot on, although thankfully our mechanics haven't resorted to using rope for door handles. Yet. :)

Hopefully everyone remembers it's fiction. Nothing drives me nuts more than people thinking we're absolute reg-busting cowboys who fly through thunderstorms for fun.

I'll grab some beers to help get past the copy editing issues (I used to do that for a living, so I'm over-sensitive) and finish it up tonight.

Seriously man, congrats on getting it done.
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Does using needle nose Vice Grips as a door handle count?

Not reg busting, but reg pushing is likely more accurate.
 
Lots push, some bust. Certainly if I'd done some of the things suggested above, I wouldn't be out to publish them, but it's the dude's story, let the dude tell it. Besides, it's all fiction, remember? As to what the porcine public thinks of me...heh.

PS. Had a rope doorhandle meself, once upon a time.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Lots push, some bust. Certainly if I'd done some of the things suggested above, I wouldn't be out to publish them, but it's the dude's story, let the dude tell it. Besides, it's all fiction, remember? As to what the porcine public thinks of me...heh.

PS. Had a rope doorhandle meself, once upon a time.
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I need to write a novel about flying cancelled checks in a Learjet. I could make up stories like flying with an inoperative windshield heat and doing a 1:1 descent into a humid airport, landing nearly zero-zero with the windshield fogged up and having the copilot open the upper door to give the captain "no gyro" directions to the FBO ramp. Repeating that for the rest of the nights legs. Or having the throttle cable break on the right engine during climb, leaving the engine stuck at 98% RPM, having to throttle back the other engine to prevent exceeding MMO and when ready for descent, shutting down the engine while still at 98% RPM.

Another good story would be to write about a Learjet 24 with such a leaky cabin that it took 90% RPM to hold that cabin at FL450, which would be necessary to get on top of the thunderstorms directly beneath you. The problem being, that at 91-92% RPM, the jet would exceed MMO. The only way you could descend was to use the spoilers while keeping the engine RPM up until upper 20s before you could pull the power back some. I have lots of good material for a fictional check running book too. Most everyone that has ever "really" flown checks would have equally good stories to tell.

Of course, the above is strictly fiction. :D
 
hahahah, thats awesome.

I mean, even though none of that happened and its fiction and such. :laff:
 
Flysher said:
hahahah, thats awesome.

I mean, even though none of that happened and its fiction and such. :laff:
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Most of the "fun" ended when we got rid of the 23s, 24s and most of the older straight 25s and 25Bs. The 25Ds and 35s were pretty reliable for the most part. Although, I did lose a C-axis seal in a 25D with -8As taking off from CMH one night. Poor on board courier about died with the thick smoke, but he pressed on and continued sorting the checks.

The fuel computers on the 35s were fun sometimes if you had one that wouldn't roll back on schedule. Another neat trick if you found yourself too high was to turn off both fuel computers, you'd come down like a brick.

The emergency pressurization systems in the newer 25Ds and newer 35s were sometimes troublesome when the little switches would short out, causing the bleed valves to fail the emergency position dumping raw bleed into the cabin. Nice and toasty and melted gill liner and melted bags of checks.

I got locked inside a 35 one night in MDW. I went back and just finished closing the top door over-center when the door shaft broke in half. There was no way to open the door and the plane was stuffed completely full of checks, about 3500lbs worth. We had to dig our way to the emergency exit by throwing the checks in the cockpit till we could reach the window.
 
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