You might be a redneck pilot if...

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You might be a redneck pilot if:

…your stall warning horn plays “Dixie.”
…your cross-country flight plan uses flea markets as check points.
…you think sectionals charts should show trailer parks.
…you’ve ever used moonshine as avgas.
…you have mud flaps on your wheel pants.
…you think GPS stands for going perfectly straight.
…your toothpick keeps poking your mike.
…you constantly confuse Beechcraft with Beechnut.
…you have a black airplane with a big #3 on the side.
…you’ve ever just taxied around the airport drinking beer.
…you use a Purina feed bag for a windsock.
…you’ve ever fueled your airplane from a mason jar.
…you’ve got a gun rack on the passenger window.
…you have more than one roll of duct tape holding your cowling together.
…your preflight includes removing all of the clover, grass, and wheat from your landing gear.
…you figure the weight of the mud and manure on your airplane into the CG calculations.
…you siphon gas from your tractor to put in your airplane.
…you’ve never landed at an actual airport though you’ve been flying for years.
…you’ve ground looped after hitting a cow.
…there are parts of your airplane labeled John Deere.
…there’s exhaust residue on the right side of your aircraft and tobacco stains on the left.
…you have to buzz the strip to chase off the sheep and goats.
…your primary Comm radio has 90 channels.
…you put hay in the baggage compartment so your dogs don’t get cold.
…you’ve got matching bumper stickers on the vertical fin.
…there’s grass stains on your propeller tips.
…the FAA still thinks you live at your parent’s house.
…you navigate with your ADF tuned to exclusively country stations.
…you think that an ultralight is a new sissy beer from Budweiser.
…you wouldn’t be caught dead flyin’ a Grumman “Yankee.”
…there’s a sign on the side of your aircraft advertising your septic tank service.
…you subscribe to The Southern Aviator because of the soft paper!
…you have ever incorporated sheetrock into the repair of your aircraft.
…you have ever tried to impress your girlfriend by buzzing her doublewide.
…the preprinted portion of your weight and balance sheet contains “Case of Bud.”
…your go/no-go checklist includes the words “Skoal” or “Redman.”
 
…your preflight includes removing all of the clover, grass, and wheat from your landing gear.

Hey, after Tony drove the Aztec through a lake it took me 6 months to get all the grass out of the engine nacelle!
 
If you've ever announced "Short final for runway X"......
 
If you've ever announced "Short final for runway X"......

Hey, them runways with "X's" on 'em mean I don't have to worry much about traffic in the pattern, right? Shooot, real redneck pilots don't use the radio much noways 'cuz we're always dribblin' 'bakky on our shirts when we do.
 
Just to be clear
I don't got a stall horn that plays Dixie. Don't got a stall horn at all.
No mud flaps on wheel pants. Not that my airplane has wheel pants.
Don't need hay in the summer.
And I ain't never, not even once, used sheetrock for an aircraft repair (assuming that drywall tape doesn't count).
 
…you have mud flaps on your wheel pants.
Removed the wheel pants because they kept clogging up with wet grass

…you think GPS stands for going perfectly straight.
I thought it was ground penetration system in the mountains.

…you use a Purina feed bag for a windsock.
Does an old canvas bag count?

…you’ve ever fueled your airplane from a mason jar.
Used a 5 gallon glass apple cider jug.

…your preflight includes removing all of the clover, grass, and wheat from your landing gear.
Change wheat to hay and you got it.

…you’ve never landed at an actual airport though you’ve been flying for years.
Pretty close.

…you have to buzz the strip to chase off the sheep and goats.
Chased the cows off countless times. I always imagined the cows swapping stories in the woods after that. "A big screaming iron bird nearly got me today!"

…there’s grass stains on your propeller tips.
Propeller tips, belly and landing gear. It's one of the reasons the wheel pants were removed.

…the FAA still thinks you live at your parent’s house.
I'm a Nomad and that's the only fixed address I have. They won't accept a license plate number.
 
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