av8tr1
"Never tell me the odds!"
Someone mentioned on freightpilots.com that neodymium magnets might be a good thing to start carrying around in your flight bag.
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Someone mentioned on freightpilots.com that neodymium magnets might be a good thing to start carrying around in your flight bag.
Screaming_Emu
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It’s an easy explanation. “I fly for a FedEx feeder. FedEx drops the packages and we fly them to smaller airports.”
If you go 121, the guys who wear mainline lanyards at the regionals are usually dingleberries. Maybe not your intent, but know how it comes across.
av8tr1
"Never tell me the odds!"
I have never said I work for FedEx. I have said I fly FedEx fright. To quote a BUNCH of you. Words have meaning.
I said "We have them at FedEx" whose airplane I fly (it says it in big purple and orange letters on the side), who put camera's in "their" airplane, that they own, that they kindly let me fly where they want me to go and when they want me to go. Nothing specific about my relationship with FedEx was stated or implied only that I have a nebulous relationship with FedEx to be determined.
Plus I am "technically Correct", the best type of correct.
Whats this? Jump on Av8tr1 night?
Screaming_Emu
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I have never said I work for FedEx. I have said I fly FedEx fright. To quote a BUNCH of you. Words have meaning.
I said "We have them at FedEx" whose airplane I fly (it says it in big purple and orange letters on the side), who put camera's in "their" airplane, that they own, that they kindly let me fly where they want me to go and when they want me to go. Nothing specific about my relationship with FedEx was stated or implied only that I have a nebulous relationship with FedEx to be determined.
Plus I am "technically Correct", the best type of correct.
Whats this? Jump on Av8tr1 night?
Just telling you how it looks, which is outsourced subcontractor trying to come across as big time.
Intent or not, that’s how it looks.
av8tr1
"Never tell me the odds!"
I wear a Star Wars lanyard with the Imperial symbol. While I would love to fly a tie interceptor it's pretty unlikely that will ever happen. Wonder how that comes across.......Does that make me a dingleberry?
That by the way is the sort of stuff that has led me to avoid 121. Who cares what lanyard someone wears. Hell I have a Sandpiper air name tag I wear on occasion that was a gift from a close friend. I get a lot of laughs when I do. It says (suprise suprise) Brian on it.
av8tr1
"Never tell me the odds!"
Once again......I said I fly FedEx freight. Not that I work FOR FedEx. FedEx is where I work but I don't work for FedEx. There are those pesky words again.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
By that logic, I’m in the military about a third of last trip.
av8tr1
"Never tell me the odds!"
No, no you don't.
But now your just splitting hairs for the fun of it. I'm out. I got better things to do with my time.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Lolz...that reminds me of the scene in "The Big Easy" where a big magnet was put on the evidence shelf next to a video tape being used for evidence against the hero detective.
When he expressed faux dismay about the state's loss of their key piece of evidence against him, his lawyer states "New Orleans is a marvelous place for coincidence...."
How true that was...
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
Exact same thing.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Words mean things... brah.
PeanuckleCRJ
Poodle Wrangler
I was about to say... "that's not how you started out..." But hey, double down!
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
That looks like it should be censored for some reason.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
I always wanted to see a "where are they now?" epilogue from that picture....
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
I'm not trying to jump on you, but that does give the perception of an illutionist. I didn't know where you work. If you said something along the lines of "The equipment at FedEx has them." it would be a little less deceptive.
For example, for some reason people at Republic like to say they fly the "Embraer for American." instead of "The Embraer 170 for Republic, a regional for American."
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
Maybe I’m just used to it from my years in Kentucky and do the mental translation without thinking. When somebody tells me they “fly freight for UPS” instead of “I’m a UPS pilot” there is no confusion in my mind and I don’t feel deceived.
I think context matters. If it turns into a conversation I expect to hear a clarification pretty quickly.
BigZ
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Some regional guys are issued the mainline lanyards and supposedly that is the only approved kind. I know because I've got one like that. My employee id has the company name on it, but other than that - none of the issued wearable items have any reference to the "operated by".