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March 21st, 2008, 22:17
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| Newbie  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: soon to be chicago
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|  Passing time While working the line how have you passed time during the slow bits. The maintenance guys i use to work with spent about 2 hours pull each other around behind the Gator we used to tow planes with, on broken airplane windscreens after a good bit of snow and ice. |
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March 22nd, 2008, 10:17
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
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 | Re: Passing time Usually it means shooting the breeze with local pilots and anyone who comes in. I've got internet access so JC helps to. Lately, my friend is getting his CFI, so hes been doing some practice ground school teaching with me the past few Sundays. Works out pretty well.
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March 22nd, 2008, 11:52
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March 22nd, 2008, 13:43
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March 22nd, 2008, 15:08
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Country Inn and Suites
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| Re: Passing time Is there not a hot piece behind the counter? The only reason I got my line job... |
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March 22nd, 2008, 20:26
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March 22nd, 2008, 22:11
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March 22nd, 2008, 22:19
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March 28th, 2008, 07:22
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NNJ
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| Re: Passing time Usually I'm on the comp when I get bored. Other than that, we play cards. One of the other workers is a gambleholic, and he got me into playing cards for everything. We play for tips, chores, food, etc. 
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March 28th, 2008, 08:56
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: FL
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| Re: Passing time i usually steal a plane and go flying without a license...  when i am bored i try and to something productive; clean the hangar, wash a plane, this sort of stuff. |
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March 28th, 2008, 10:00
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March 29th, 2008, 12:14
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| Re: Passing time Us night owls, we do it right. Playstation 2 playing Madden all 8 hours of the shift. Watching movies, eating food, going on the internet. Sleeping for a few hours. Yes we do work. With the expection of Airnet and the occasional Carolina Medical call, not much comes in on the ramp at such late hours.
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March 29th, 2008, 20:01
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 The world is coming to an end... When I'm overly bored, like most Saturdays... If I can't find anything interisting enough online, i'll mess with my agents... That is fun!! 
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March 30th, 2008, 09:57
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: KAUG
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| Re: Passing time I've been hooked on the Microsoft Pinball...........not much else goin on. |
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March 31st, 2008, 02:02
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: armpit of california
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| Re: Passing time ......we have golf carts....
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March 31st, 2008, 11:43
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Centreville
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| Re: Passing time When I worked for IDE at IAD, my sup would let me take a tug around the airport to snap pictures of whatever I found to be interesting that day. I got some great pictures of some SPs, a Tu-154 for the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut School, some VC-10s, and all kinds of other more normal things around Dulles. If I wasn't out taking pictures, I was probably doing a relocation under tow (something you should check into if you're interested in being a pilot - you'll get limited training in how to get the plane ready to be safely moved and talk on the radios...it passes the time, too, but I did it more because I really enjoyed it), or doing something else productive, like getting the next bank's bag sheets out on the desk, doing a bug wash, filling the water or dumping the lav (requested or not). If nothing productive was left and I wasn't out filling my camera's memory card, I'd probably just grab a book, or sit around telling stories with the other ramp guys. My sup had the most hilarious stories.
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April 2nd, 2008, 02:03
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: soon to be chicago
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| Re: Passing time After washing a plane in the hanger we would usually add some more soap and spend some time sliding around in the gator we used to tow airplanes |
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April 2nd, 2008, 11:45
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| Re: Passing time We have these red carpets that we are supposed to place down in front of the door when the a/c parks. Well me and another guy would take about two of them, stack them on top of each other, take a ride on the golf cart to the T-Hangars, and use the carpets as driving range mats. I had some practice golf balls, and we had some clubs. Nothing like practicing golf when theres nothing to do. Tried the golf cart thing, not much we could do with that.  Ahh. Rope, Roller blades or skateboard, and the golf cart. Now that would be fun on an empty ramp. 
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April 2nd, 2008, 18:47
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but no I do not. We have a full time guy that only details and I try and help him out. I have mentioned this to my Manager and he says he is going to talk to the GM. | |
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April 2nd, 2008, 18:47
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April 2nd, 2008, 23:56
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| Re: Passing time What's the dumbest thing you ever did while being an aviation fuel transfer tech? Well, glad you asked DE. When I was 16, I was refueling the Jet A truck via single point. I kinda forgot to disconnect the single point before I drove the truck away. I yanked the hose off of the big tank. There was some sort of safety valve that prevented a major fuel spill, but the hardest phone call I've ever made, to this day, was to my boss telling him what I did. That was back in 1977, and I'm a UPS Capt today, but thinking about that still sends chills up my spine.....
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April 3rd, 2008, 00:10
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April 3rd, 2008, 06:55
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__________________ -Paul It ain't always 65 and sunny | |
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April 3rd, 2008, 18:13
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Chicago, IL
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You CAN'T drive away with the hose attached now because when the little door for the single point is open, it kicks in the brakes and won't let you put it into gear. And if you have the PTO running, it won't let you put it into gear either. The only thing now that you can do is drive away while a single point hose is still attached to the aircraft. You can't drive away unless the nozzles are in their holsters.There HAVE been times, though, that I'm sitting there wondering WHY I can't go anywhere despite that big huge red light glaring at me. Cheers! | |
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April 13th, 2008, 01:06
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