A line guy probably got fired for this...

[Ian J]

This is sacrilege. I only hope the line guy was properly flogged.

[Boris Badenov]

Just further evidence that Airnet guys aren't REAL freightdogs...


I keed, I keed!

[Ian J]

Ha! I'm going to start giving the FBOs an "in range" call requesting lav services and catering.

[jtrain609]

I miss the Chieftain.

[falconvalley]

I got fired in 711! No red carpet for me though...

[bronco21016]

This looks strangely familiar.... Perhaps from my own days of working the line?

[ljg]

Mike where is your BB photo?

[mikecweb]

Run along ladies....

[WestIndian425]

LOL!! Nothing wrong with making the folks in the pistons feel like VIP's. After all the FBO's must treat every customer right.

I remember those days.

[Carnival_Pilot]

Man!! i feel sorry for him!!

[scflyin]

Back in my lineman days I never put the red carpet out for the freight dawgs. But I did go out of my way for them. Hell, I liked them more than the corporate pilots. It was always funny to see the look on their faces when I went above and beyond for them. That and I put out a brake fire on an airnet lear in CLT. That was a fun night.

[BCTAv8r]

Originally Posted by mikecweb

Run along ladies....

The cones could be better utilized around the aircraft.

[mikecweb]

Originally Posted by scflyin

Back in my lineman days I never put the red carpet out for the freight dawgs. But I did go out of my way for them. Hell, I liked them more than the corporate pilots. It was always funny to see the look on their faces when I went above and beyond for them. That and I put out a brake fire on an airnet lear in CLT. That was a fun night.

I heard about that one...

[scflyin]

It's funny because the next night after it happened someone mentioned that the big wigs were talking about it in columbus. I guess that was my fifteen seconds of fame. I believe the rim or something like that had split and it was smoking when they pulled in. And as soon as they parked it just went up in flames. I tried to do my best fire marshal bill impression while I was spraying it down.

[Pietrantonio]

Not the red carpets.....

[ppragman]

Originally Posted by BCTAv8r

The cones could be better utilized around the aircraft.

I hope that was infused with serious amounts of , but seriously, I picked up some boxes for my company over at UPS about a year ago, I was in the 207, and they put litterally 8 cones around my little sled, it was funnier than hell.

[BCTAv8r]

Originally Posted by ppragman

I hope that was infused with serious amounts of , but seriously, I picked up some boxes for my company over at UPS about a year ago, I was in the 207, and they put litterally 8 cones around my little sled, it was funnier than hell.

Nah, no sarcasm. Eight cones is a bit excessive. At my FBO we place 3 around pistons/twins and 4 around everything else.

[BigGuyFlying]

Haha, they did that for me too in a Cessna, I felt like a celebrity for a mere 10 seconds:

[Boris Badenov]

Cones? Carpets? What is this #*$&#$? The last time I actually parked an FBO, they exiled me to the opposite end of the 300 yard ramp, and acted like they were doing me a favor by taking my (ok, my company's) $1000. When I returned the next day, they "couldn't find" the "MU-2 towbar" (there's a specific towbar!? Yeah, it's marked "Freight scum") to pull it back within hiking distance. It probably didn't help that I kept asking all the corporate passengers whether I could wash their windshields. Do they stock hairspray and cosmetics in airnet planes?

[trafficinsight]

actually yes, there is a specific towbar.

When I was on the line we owned a towbar with interchangeable heads, and we didn't own the MU-2 head, so we had to be careful where we parked them because they were stuck there.

[Boris Badenov]

Originally Posted by trafficinsight

actually yes, there is a specific towbar.

When I was on the line we owned a towbar with interchangeable heads, and we didn't own the MU-2 head, so we had to be careful where we parked them because they were stuck there.

Learn something every day. Nevertheless, a wise FBO manager would spring for an MU-2 head that can be found, lest a sleep-deprived and childish pilot taxi back up to the front door in a fit of pique and leave the engines running on the locks for about 5 minutes to register his displeasure on the decibel scale. By the time I finished watching the suits try to negotiate the stairs to their sleek some-kind-of-jet with their hands over their ears, I almost wasn't pissed off anymore. In my defense, it was about 10 degrees out, the wind was kickin, and the line guys were over doing donuts in the golf cart studiously ignoring me trudging across the blasted fricking tundra of the ramp.

[scflyin]

There are some half a@#ed companies out there. We had all the tow heads in stock to move just about anything from a C-152 to a B-727.

[BCTAv8r]

Originally Posted by Boris Badenov

Learn something every day. Nevertheless, a wise FBO manager would spring for an MU-2 head that can be found, lest a sleep-deprived and childish pilot taxi back up to the front door in a fit of pique and leave the engines running on the locks for about 5 minutes to register his displeasure on the decibel scale. By the time I finished watching the suits try to negotiate the stairs to their sleek some-kind-of-jet with their hands over their ears, I almost wasn't pissed off anymore. In my defense, it was about 10 degrees out, the wind was kickin, and the line guys were over doing donuts in the golf cart studiously ignoring me trudging across the blasted fricking tundra of the ramp.

No offense but I hate the MU-2 in every way. They are ugly, loud as hell, and a pain to fuel.

[taseal]

Originally Posted by BigGuyFlying

Haha, they did that for me too in a Cessna, I felt like a celebrity for a mere 10 seconds:

no way dude hahahaha

[Boris Badenov]

Originally Posted by BCTAv8r

No offense but I hate the MU-2 in every way. They are ugly, loud as hell, and a pain to fuel.

Oh, none taken. I fly what they pay me to fly. Just like you fuel what they pay you to fuel.

That said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, loud is cool, fueling it just requires the ability to count, and from my very unscientific polling, it'll land shorter, take off sooner, and outrun a "comparable" kingair on less gas.