rotor91 Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Grand Canyon Tour:get up at 430am, drive 90 miles to the ditch, have 5th cup of coffee,preflight,pee,get in start up,load up the midwestern beefeaters,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for an hour,fly for 30 minutes,fly for an hour,Can I have a break? no ok,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for 30 minutes,fly for an hour,get out tie down,PEE, drive 90 miles home, eat sleep repeat. -Hawaii Tour, see above but get to wear funky hawaii shirt and shorts -Offshore Oil, see above but the tourists smell bad and the river is a lot bigger. -Tuna Boat. see above but you get to chant where da fish where da fish. -Powerline Patrol see above but you get to say tower one, tower two,tower three,tower four,tower five.......tower 496,tower 497 etc -Pipeline Patrol see above but you get to say, yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,.......sh!# theres a wire ok,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline,yup its a pipeline, EMS get to work, have 7th cup of coffee,preflight,pee,news at 6, eat,sleep,eat,sleep,eat,sleep,eat,sleep, BEEP BEEP BEEP, Motorcycle vrs a big rig, fly 20 minutes, load patient, Yuuuuuuuko that looks like it hurts, fly 20 minutes, offload, debrief, eat sleep eat sleep eat sleep. go home. Logging: get up at 5, have 3rd cup of coffee, preflight, comin up, log, log, log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log,log, Wipe up CP's puke, log, log,log,log,log,log, ect shut down go home drink massive amounts of beer with Hookers. Fire: get up at 4am drive an hour, have 9th cup of coffee, mission plan, you want to WHAT? put on bucket go to fire oh big fire, up down turn around fetch a pail of water. repeat 160 times. shut down wait until 14 hours is over. Out of duty time find tent eat at base camp, visit little blue room, sleep up again at 5am. repeat CFI get in at 9am, have 10 cups of coffee three cigs and wait for no shows, Non english speaking student shows up, preflight, flight SCREAM I HAVE THE CONTROLS, repeat 20 times, After hour flight clean shorts, repeat 5 times, go home knowing your the pilot that God saved the R22 from the clutches of the student pilot, get on PC or Mac and type resume' yup getting there 252.4 hours, look for way to get turbine job with out flight time, go to sleep thinking how great it would be to be working as a real pilot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerhardt Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 funny stuff. But I can't help but to think somone's going to take it seriously and start ragging on you. Thanks for the laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotor91 Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 funny stuff. But I can't help but to think somone's going to take it seriously and start ragging on you. Thanks for the laugh. Thx G......hopefully we'll ALL just have a good laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascott20 Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Nice!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewT Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 haha, thats pretty good! Pipel patrol, logging, and CFI ones are the best, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehh Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 funny stuff. But I can't help but to think somone's going to take it seriously and start ragging on you. Thanks for the laugh. Ahh, actually I'm not sure he was kidding... Having done several of those jobs, he sounds right on the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashresidue Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Now THAT'S funny!!!! And pretty accurate also. Gentle winds,cr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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