So $1160 to $1260 per month and the wife pays for insurance. You are still going to need 80-85 hours per month to cover those regular bills. If the car needs tires this month, tack on another 15 hours.

Yes, you may be able to fly 120 hours. But I have yet to meet anybody who can sustain that kind of load for very long. If, and that is a big if, you can average 7.5 hours per day, you could hit 30 hours in four days: four 12-15 duty hour days. If that is the case and you commute, your three days off yield an evening, a full day, and a morning at home each week. More realistically, it will take five days to hit 30 hours leaving you 24-36 hours at home. Home visits like that for too many months lead to divorces.

If you commute, there will be NO disposable income. I am not expressing any opinion about GIA as a company. I am only saying that commuting to a job with such poor pay is not smart. If you lived in base, maybe I could see it (effectively at least one more day at home each week and no crash pad to pay for), but commuting is just crazy.

Now that Commute has ratified a contract, GIA is the lowest pay (if I am wrong, please correct me). Rather than go there, why not wait for a company that either pays fairly well or at least has a base you can drive to?




(About the training contract, I have signed one every where I have worked, so I am not inherently against them. But 24 months? At three times the cost of a type rating? That is ridiculous.)