How is a Pilot "Professional"?

[surreal1221]

Magistrate...very well.

Lower your expectations and it'll make dealing with the lunacy if the south easier to handle. You should know this by now, lol

 

[MikeD]

Backpack for the ladder to the 747 upper deck on my deadheads, 5 o'clock shadow because mine grows out relatively quickly and I'll have it after a 12 hour day.

Ladder? On the cargo birds? It's more like an angled staircase with spartan amenities, hardly a ladder.

This here, is a ladder to the deck:

 

[rd757]

I'm going to rock this from now on.

 

[dasleben]

Ladder? On the cargo birds? It's more like an angled staircase with spartan amenities, hardly a ladder.

This here, is a ladder to the deck:

View attachment 28067

Those guys would do well with a backpack.

Here's what I'm referring to, and yes, it can be climbed like a steep set of stairs. I still felt like I was going to fall down it one day carrying a bag and face plant the side of the airplane, though.

 

[MikeD]

Those guys would do well with a backpack.

Here's what I'm referring to, and yes, it can be climbed like a steep set of stairs. I still felt like I was going to fall down it one day carrying a bag and face plant the side of the airplane, though.

Cool stuff there. Love the cargo birds.

 

[dasleben]

Cool stuff there. Love the cargo birds.

Me too, especially for the lack of drama!

I flew a couple pax legs at the tail end of my last freight trip, and it reeeeeally made me appreciate freight.

*ding*
"Uh, hello?"
"Could you cool down the aft?"
"Who IS this?"

 

[derg]

I flew with a guy that brought a flight kit (we don't carry flight kits anymore), a duffel bag, a big laptop case and a big stack of magazines (like at least a foot tall). He literally (yes, literally) had junk strewn across the cockpit and it was a three-man 757 trip so you know the cockpit isn't all that big.

And he smelled like BO.

Ungh.

 

[dasleben]

I flew with a guy that brought a flight kit (we don't carry flight kits anymore), a duffel bag, a big laptop case and a big stack of magazines (like at least a foot tall). He literally (yes, literally) had junk strewn across the cockpit and it was a three-man 757 trip so you know the cockpit isn't all that big.

And he smelled like BO.

Ungh.

Three-man 757 trips are why I was actually somewhat glad when the 757 got parked at my last company. That's almost all we did, with the exception of the LAS-HNL stuff (which I never saw anyway). We were jammed up together in the cockpit, but at least we had to stop for gas halfway to Bishkek!

 

[derg]

Three-man 757 trips are why I was actually somewhat glad when the 757 got parked at my last company. That's almost all we did, with the exception of the LAS-HNL stuff (which I never saw anyway). Brutal.

It was a pain. Passengers hated it, stews hated it, pilots hated it.

Two-man, it's fine, but three-man… Sheesh, I know it was a placeholder during the lie flat mods, but whose idea was that madness?

 

[Screaming_Emu]

I flew with a guy that brought a flight kit (we don't carry flight kits anymore), a duffel bag, a big laptop case and a big stack of magazines (like at least a foot tall). He literally (yes, literally) had junk strewn across the cockpit and it was a three-man 757 trip so you know the cockpit isn't all that big.

And he smelled like BO.

Ungh.

We've flown together?

 

[ASpilot2be]

Those guys would do well with a backpack.

Here's what I'm referring to, and yes, it can be climbed like a steep set of stairs. I still felt like I was going to fall down it one day carrying a bag and face plant the side of the airplane, though.

I have about killed myself on those stairs before. The railing collapsed on me going up while carrying my usual rain forest worth of paperwork to be signed before departure.

 

[NewYorkophile]

Ladder? On the cargo birds? It's more like an angled staircase with spartan amenities, hardly a ladder.

This here, is a ladder to the deck:

View attachment 28067

I got to poke around in a 135 a few weeks ago...needless to say, I believe I made the right choice 7 years ago. I'll take my stairs, bunk, big windows, lack of refueling and frequent overnight gas stops ANY day.

 

[dasleben]

Snagged a pic for anyone wondering why I defend my backpack to the death.

 

[ASpilot2be]

Snagged a pic for anyone wondering why I defend my backpack to the death.

Great! Now I am going to have nightmares. Those stairs scare me.

 

[MikeD]

Great! Now I am going to have nightmares. Those stairs scare me.

Don't ever go on a Navy ship then....

 

[ASpilot2be]

Don't ever go on a Navy ship then....

Hahaha. I have never been on a Navy ship, but I grew up crawling around the engine rooms and the hulls of big ships. Loved every minute of it.

 

[RORO]

I flew with a guy that brought a flight kit (we don't carry flight kits anymore), a duffel bag, a big laptop case and a big stack of magazines (like at least a foot tall). He literally (yes, literally) had junk strewn across the cockpit and it was a three-man 757 trip so you know the cockpit isn't all that big.

And he smelled like BO.

Ungh.

What type of magazines?? Sometimes bigger IS better!

 

[CaptBill]

Don't ever go on a Navy ship then....

Especially when "General Quarters" is called.

 

[JEP]

Especially when "General Quarters" is called.

..And you attempt to go 'against' the flow.....You will get crushed. If I recall it was 'Up, aft' 'Down, Forward' Can remember the port/starboard part though.....

 

[killbilly]

This is a surprising fact. I was once with a buddy in Boston. It was raining, so he went out to flag down a cab with the only umbrella. He came back after 15 minutes, and I said, "No cabs drove by?" He said several drove by, but he was the wrong color for them to stop. It's amazing that happened in Boston. I would expect it in South Carolina, but Massachusetts?

Sadly, it happens here in DC a lot.