Assuming you have an equal passion for both, I would go the pilot route.

“Be a cop to have more time home with family” sounds good on paper but doesn’t play out that way. You’ll work weekends, nights, holidays just like a pilot. You’ll also rarely work 40 hours as a lot of those guys get suckered into OT and end up doing 50+ hour work weeks. You’ll end up spending your one day off a week sleeping rather than with family. Cops by you probably make around 150k which actually isn’t much in Long Island.

You’ll make more money with a major airline, have more time off, more flexibility in your schedule.

Also a 401k or IRA is better than a pension. How many people in the past thought they had a bullet proof retirement and then arbitrarily lose their health insurance or annuity because their pension went broke. I’d rather be the one in charge of my money