Timbo

Back in the day...I was flying cancelled checks out of JFK at night in a Turbo Commander 690. As we are loading up the plane, we hear what sounds like gunshots out in the runway area, towards the ocean, not the city, where you might Expect to hear gunshots at 10pm!

As we taxid out, ground tells us to give way to the Port Authority car coming off the runway. As he drives by, I see a guy hanging out the passenger side window with a shotgun in his hand, waving at us! I asked ground if there was an escaped convict on the loose or something, and he said, "No, they are shooting the jackrabbits that are out there."

Sure enough, a few nights later, we are in the flare and a huge jackrabbit runs across the runway, right in front of our touchdown point, being chased by a much bigger dog! Luckily we had enough speed to balloon up and over them before touching down!

I called tower and said, "Send out that guy with the shotgun!"

LivingTheDream

I'm bidding the LAX 7ERA, (after 24yrs in the ATL! good luck to me!) Looking to fly the long asia trips, at least during my east coast commute phase, while I sort out the move thing.

Would appreciate feedback/gouge on the recovery from one of these bad boys. Did the 727 2 week trips out of FRA when I was 37-39...thinking the recovery from a 2 week trip at 54 is going to be a bit tougher! Thx.

Boomer

I guess poking Jessica Simpson - anytime, anywhere - for a year and a half doesn't count as a win?

Timbo

The hotel in NRT is good and quiet so you'll get good sleep there inbetween the runs back and forth to...everywhere.

Oh, and you'll be wanting an 'official' T shirt to wear in the bar too:

Made In China T-Shirt - Life Is Crap

Takes me about 24 hours at home to half-recover from a 6 day ATL-NRT-HKG thing, but I usually don't sleep much in HKG!

Ferd149

Come on down!! You'll like the trips a lot, much more laid back than flying the Atlantic.

The nice thing about the LAX trips is a lot of the trips pass one or both directions through HNL which does a great job of taking the edge off. I'm generally good after about 24 hours.

The Japanese run a great airline out there.......whole different animal. You'll like it a lot!!

Ferd

LivingTheDream

Thx Timbo,

Enjoyed having u on my jump seat the other day. Any others?

Timbo

The pleasure was mine, thanks for the ride and I hope to buy you a beer or 3 in NRT sometime. Feel free to check my schedule to see if we'll cross paths.

Oh, and practice up on your darts, the Barge Inn has a good board, good food and Guiness.

LivingTheDream

Thx Ferd,

Sounds alot like our FRA op was...iow, those ex-Pan Amers really knew how to run an int'l op...almost forgot I was at the big D for those 2 yrs! Too bad Ron wouldn't let 'em do what they wrote the book on...

forgot to bid

Good one Boomer.

buzzpat

Only if she was aware that she was being poked.