How is it to fly Cargo?
04-22-2006, 05:14 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by BURflyer
I have heard that cargo flying will reduce your life by 10-15 years. Pay is not the advantage in cargo flying because besides flying Fedex/Ups, you will be making a low to middle class living. Also seems like sitting in one seat for 10 hours and making one takeoff and one landing on each leg would become very boring after you initial honeymoon with the 747 or MD11 or whatever heavy jet they use long haul.
04-22-2006, 06:37 PM
#22
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You say most fatigue issues are self-induced? You guys must have way better skeds than we do at the workers paradise. Out in the pac on the 767 we hardly have time to drink a single beer between 13+ hour duty nights. 3 day layover? Better bring your spare liver next time. 
04-23-2006, 03:55 AM
#23
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Originally Posted by FR8Hauler
I think it is all the partying on 3 day layovers in places like Shanghai and the PI are what takes the 10-15 years off of you. Most of the fatigue issues are self-induced. In the Philipines right now with a hangover from yesterday at the Blue Rock.
Be headin' out there next month. Where's the blue rock at?
04-23-2006, 11:46 AM
#24
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Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
..................Some guys here have no problem adapting to the body clock swaps.............Most are former Navy Squids used to sleeping under the waist catapult on the flat tops................I always envied their ability to sleep anywhere through everything........I never could.
So it was those 3 cruises in the ‘JO Bunkroom’ that prepared me for a life as a Frieght Dawg?! I don’t know why it never occurred to me that if you could learn to sleep during 24-hour flight ops, with a cat shot every 30 seconds . you COULD sleep anywhere.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
On the Senior side........If you can hold the Day trips with Double DH's the Cargo side (FedEx again) the flying is great.........No body clock swaps, good time off.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
.............. being Junior at this company really sux. Being Senior, life can be very, very good.
Once you are senior. . it doesn’t seem much like you are ‘working’ at all.
04-23-2006, 11:48 AM
#25
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Ahh, but the beer is cold
Originally Posted by 747classic
Be headin' out there next month. Where's the blue rock at?
Don't forget to tip your driver.
04-23-2006, 10:06 PM
#28
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Thats because you are so effed up from being junior that you dont realize where the hell you are!!!!!!
Originally Posted by captain_drew
Damn! ALL these years and I never made the connection! Thank you for finally giving me closure So it was those 3 cruises in the ‘JO Bunkroom’ that prepared me for a life as a Frieght Dawg?! I don’t know why it never occurred to me that if you could learn to sleep during 24-hour flight ops, with a cat shot every 30 seconds . you COULD sleep anywhere.
That is going to take some time ‘in grade’ to achieve, which is where being able to sleep at the drop of a pin comes in handy. And it also explains why such a high proportion of folks STAY in a seat WAY beyond the time someone at another airline might upgrade. Being junior is very painful at a night flying outfit.
I REPRESENT that!
Once you are senior. . it doesn’t seem much like you are ‘working’ at all.
So it was those 3 cruises in the ‘JO Bunkroom’ that prepared me for a life as a Frieght Dawg?! I don’t know why it never occurred to me that if you could learn to sleep during 24-hour flight ops, with a cat shot every 30 seconds . you COULD sleep anywhere. That is going to take some time ‘in grade’ to achieve, which is where being able to sleep at the drop of a pin comes in handy. And it also explains why such a high proportion of folks STAY in a seat WAY beyond the time someone at another airline might upgrade. Being junior is very painful at a night flying outfit.
I REPRESENT that!
Once you are senior. . it doesn’t seem much like you are ‘working’ at all.
04-24-2006, 12:38 AM
#30
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Originally Posted by 747classic
Be headin' out there next month. Where's the blue rock at?
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