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Originally Posted by
motorclutch
Referring just to your 600000 in 20 years.
Not exactly. Out of 30000, 10000 goes to Uncle Sam, and if 8000 goes against hotels and crash pads, we have 12000 left. That multiplied by 20 years adds to 240000. Taking in consideration the money value goes to crap year after year, 240000 now will be probably 40000-60000 in 20 years.
However, during this 20 years, you screw up your family, your health, and you end up just being an old fart with a bad attitude.
We have only one life, and our health and happiness is not worth all the money in the world. And if you are unlucky enough to have 2-3 marriages, due to the " wonderful" quality of night flying life style and bad moods created by it ( plenty seen here ), then .......don't even want to go there.
Also calling pilots, who pay their way there, pay for their own hotel and rental, who have a certain experience ( assuming you are not calling for interview 100 hours type ) a bunch of clowns just because you guys at ABX are pilots extraordinarie is not nice.
Home basing doesn't help that much with QOL. You still have to fly the airplane out to the West coast in the middle of the night. The thing I don't understand is for example the Atlas guys. They get done with work in CVG around 1-2 am and instead of jump seating home on us or Atlas they go to the hotel and commercial home later in the day. So you get home like 12 hours later after some F-d up commercial flight. How does this help family life?