Right?! And I got a badass new pencil box, too.
Is it crackalackin'?
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Is it crackalackin'?
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
I'm driving around with a varied, intensive, albeit solely undergraduate education (to which I would love to add a graduate degree, but at present ain't nobody got time), and I somewhat resent that.
The amount of effort that I bring to ensuring a safe and comfortable operation is INDEPENDENT of what I am paid, and I think you'll find a lot of my coworkers are exactly that way. My willingness to work more (more days, more flying etc.) is a function of my hourly rate, but when I'm at work, it's a one-hundred-percent effort, all day, every day. (You will NOT find me loafing around at Mach-point-plowing-around just because I'm mad about what I'm paid. Bullcrap.)
Actually, almost everyone I fly with has at LEAST a bachelor's - and I can definitely tell who doesn't - and I can also usually tell who studied aviation vs. another field without even asking where they went and what they studied.
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dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Blah, blah, blah, blah. I carry a backpack because I don't care to bust my ass climbing down the ladder from the upper deck of a 747 freighter with one hand. COME AT ME, BRO.
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Welp. I fly big jets all over the world, make a solid upper middle class income, and have a college degree. And carry a backpack. Don't generalize.
ScorpionStinger
Well-Known Member
Can't use that. It's not like there was a Pedobear Van traipsing the playground dragging kids away to throw them into flight training!
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
I remember looking up the aisle, pre-evildoer days, and seeing the door open on the 757 when we were taxiing around Atlanta, and the magic being made.Can't use that. It's not like there was a Pedobear Van traipsing the playground dragging kids away to throw them into flight training!
That was what did it.
UAL 727-100 from VIS to SFO when the engineer showed me the cockpit was it for me.
scooter2525
Very well Member
Impressive Vi-pizzle had commercial service. When I flew the Chieftain in there, it was pretty quiet.
ScorpionStinger
Well-Known Member
Can't use that. It's not like there was a Pedobear Van traipsing the playground dragging kids away to throw them into flight training!
Maybe.... I just know this didnt help
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Man, I shoulda gone to med school.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
United used to go to a LOT of places out here with their own airplanes.
I can't find it handily online, but there was a picture of a United Convair in our Modesto station, on the ramp in lovely MOD.
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
I will fight you.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Nah, dude.Man, I shoulda gone to med school.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Cargo pilots aren't in the passenger limelight. Pax pilots walk through terminals, are seen at the gate, and seen while (de)boarding, etc.
Cargo guys should be able to fly in boxers and t-shirts for all practical purposes, no one will see it.
ctab5060X
Well-Known Member
Cargo guys should be able to fly in boxers and t-shirts for all practical purposes, no one will see it.
You've never jump seated on FedEx, have you?
B767
Well-Known Member
Watching the "blink blink" out my bedroom window when I was 3 (it was the rotating beacon of the airport in Lawrence, MA. I called it the blink blink at the time). That's my earliest memory. Then there was the America West crew that gave me the flight release after a flight to PHX and showed me the cockpit in '96 (I was 9 then). First UAL 777 in DEN. Delta 727 to CVG. Delta 767 to BOS. And many, many, more.
During the EAS days, they had lots.
Then people would drive 3.5 hours to LAX to save $20 on airfare and the rest is history.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
You've never jump seated on FedEx, have you?
To change the subject a bit, only once from SFO-MEM-DTW.
The SFO-MEM leg was an A310. Never jumpseated on a Fedex before so I got the full J/S briefing by the CA. Oxygen masks, seats, belts, emergency exit/egress, lavatory, etc. But then he said something along the lines of notify him IMMEDIATELY if I saw any person emerge from the cargo pallet area inflight and approach the flight deck. Initially I laughed but then I saw he was dead serious.
The second one MEM-DTW was a MD11 and the FO gave me his crew meal