Originally Posted by
DirtyPurple
Elephant? Cool story bro. I guess flying less than half the block hours over a 30-year career makes the lowly box hauler die sooner? I’ll take my 400 block hours a year in a widebody any day. I’m not a math guy, but 1000 block hrs a year as a pax bubba is...greater than 2x the radiation exposure? Pray tell, doctor, how is it that cargo guys universally perish at age 70?
Love to hear the uneducated stabs at cargo guys from the pax fellas. It may have been pure nights for cargo back when you rode a dinosaur to work...stick your head out of your hole and absorb some new data. Check out CURRENT bidpacks before propagating fake news.
The pension should probably be a non-factor in choosing, at least @ Purple. I’m not counting on that being there for me due to union shenanigans.
I’m sure you need to reload your quiver of Internet arrows and get back to Rachel Maddow. Cya.
A few years ago (1992) when I started as a controller before I became a pilot, the CAA did a study on the lifespan off the average controller and when the results came out, had to reduce the pension age from 65 to 56 because it turned out the average controller had a life expectancy of 62 years. There are several studies that suggest flying night cargo even for the best cargo companies reduces your life expectancy by about 10 years compared to equally educated people who sleep when it is dark. You are more than welcome to close your eyes (haha) to the facts.